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.
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