Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

[Nick Khamis <symack@gmail.com>]

On 4/25/13, Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/25/2013 10:33 AM, Nick Khamis wrote:
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> We are trying to sync our server's time with an accurate ntp
>> server, and was wondering which of the many solutions are
>> considered viable. I did see the
>> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Time_Synchronization.
>> Our services are quite time sensitive.
>
> My best results so far have been to have one node on my network sync to
> pool.ntp.org, and to have all other nodes on my network sync to that one
> node. Short of having a stratum 1 time server on my network, that seems
> to work the best; done that way, my nodes are within a few milliseconds
> of each other, near as I can figure.
>
> For contrast, having all nodes sync to pool.ntp.org results in time
> variance of up to 2-3 minutes across a dozen or so machines.
>
>


Thank you so much for your response. Michael, were you using ntp to
sync that initial server? If so, can we get that setup up and running
easily? I've been putting the time issue
off for way too long...

Thanks in Advance,

Nick