On Sunday 13 February 2005 03:21 pm, Glenn English wrote: > The NTP folk have set up a cool DNS entry, "pool.ntp.org". If you > point your time sync'er daemon at that, you get a list of a number of > NTP servers, provided at random (or maybe load balanced), who've > volunteered to be a server for anybody. Every time you restart the > daemon, you get a different list. Given that NTP has no facility for redirection, I did a host lookup on pool.ntp.org. It's round-robined by DNS. You don't get a different list, you get the same list in a different order. > But whatever you do, don't use NIST (or any other stratum 1 server). > They've got better things to do than tell the likes of you and me what > time it is. Stratum 2 will keep your clock within a few milliseconds. Heck, on high speed networks, even as far down as stratum 5 will get the job done within a second or two. -- Paul Johnson baloo@ursine.ca http://ursine.ca/~baloo/
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