NTP

Larry Sheldon lsheldon at creighton.edu
Thu Dec 21 12:48:29 UTC 2000


> Now if we could just get ISP's to load this on their name servers and
> make this visible to their clients.... The last time I checked, neither
> @Home nor RCN offered a time server, so I have to go to one of the
> public 2nd tier servers. However, to reduce load, I use ntpdate once a
> day to sync and then serve time to my LAN boxen.

Many routers of the cisco persuasion support NTP and seem to be quite
stable.  I run NTP on several of ours pointing to public chimes and each other,
then run NTP on anything that will support it, pointing to the nearest
of them.

> Presumably an NTP server can coexist with a name server without unduly
> loading the box? (I'm just looking for ammo to lobby my ISP's with.)

I've never been able to detect the additional load.

--
-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
.                                                                       .
- L. F. (Larry) Sheldon, Jr.                                            -
. Unix Systems and Network Administration                               .
- Creighton University Computer Center-Old Gym                          -
. 2500 California Plaza                                                 .
- Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.A.  68178       Two identifying characteristics  -
. lsheldon at creighton.edu                  of System Administrators:     .
- 402 280-2254 (work)                Infallibility, and the ability to  -
. 402 681-4726 (cellular)               learn from their mistakes.      .
- 402 332-4622 (residence)                                              -
. http://www.creighton.edu/~lsheldon    Adapted from Stephen Pinker     .
-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-



More information about the bind-users mailing list