Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

[Nick Khamis <symack@gmail.com>]

On 4/26/13, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 26/04/2013 17:27, Nick Khamis wrote:
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> Thank you for the many solutions however, I am totally lost as to which
>> would
>> be most reliable in a collocation setting vs. office desktop. What we
>> would like
>> is to set up our own ntp server which other servers and desktops in our
>> office
>> syncs to. Is this advised? If so, is there a nice tutorial online?
>
> The subject of time is vastly more complex than anyone ever thinks at
> first look. Time servers are tiered and are themselves both clients and
> servers...
>
> So here's what you do: sync everything to your ISP's time servers.
> Chances are good they do a better job than you can, just like with DNS
> caching.
>
> When you know more about the subject than you do now, you can venture
> into rolling your own. I'm not being rude or funny - time servers are
> just one of those things that unless you have special needs and LOTS of
> cash, it is so much easier to just let someone else do all the heavy
> lifting.
>
>
> --
> Alan McKinnon
> alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
>
>
>

Hello Alan,

Thank you so much for your response, and I totally understand the
effort vs. benefit challenge. However, is it really that much
trouble/unstable to setup our own ntp
server that syncs with our local isp, and have our internal network sync on it?

N.