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Set Your Clocks With Pooled NTP Servers

Posted by timothy on from the do-it-now-do-it-accurately dept.

flok writes "Since we all want to have the time correctly set on our servers we all want to synchronize to some ntp-server. Not everyone has such an NTP server available, so that is why www.pool.ntp.org was started. If your server is synced to some discrete timesource like GPS or something like that you can also join the group to help this initiative!"

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  1. time.apple.com by Twirlip+of+the+Mists · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not everyone has such an NTP server available

    Yeah, you do. Just use time.apple.com.

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  2. Re:Many publicly available time servers by cgenman · · Score: 2, Interesting

    (perhaps a fix would have been to alter the dns entry to point back to microsoft's server, though that might have been actionable.)

    Actually, as another flaw in Netgear's hardware, the IP address was hard-coded. No such DNS trickery would help.

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  3. Re:A small piece of experience by mgarraha · · Score: 2, Interesting

    time.windows.com and clock.redhat.com are within a few milliseconds of each other. It sounds like your laptop wasn't in sync. If your /etc/ntp.conf has a line saying "restrict default ignore" then you need to add another "restrict" line for the server(s) you want to use.

  4. Re:NIST? by metamatic · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well, if NIST don't want random people using their stratum-1 servers, they shouldn't be inviting and instructing the entire world to use their stratum-1 servers, should they?

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  5. Re:Many publicly available time servers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Can anyone enlighten me on why this is special? I couldn't make it out from the site

    I didn't take me much to figure it out. Public time servers have always been a pain. Some are up and down. Many require you send a nice e-mail before using them. This is much easier. You just add "server pool.ntp.org" three times. Each time it gets the IP of a different server, so you have redundancy and easy configuration for free.

    I wish someone had thought of that before. Now, the important thing, is someone monitoring the pool and tossing out bad servers? It says there was a discussion on the e-mail list, but I've got better things to do now.