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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. 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.