Jesse,

No NTP servers as yet. Right now I am just running an ntp server in a VM.
Management wants reliable NTP servers, as we will support distrubuted
systems and kerberos, etc. Money is not a constraint. I am just looking for
recommendations for NTP appliances in the data center.

Pedro Alvarez

On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Jesse Becker <[email protected]> wrote:

> If memory serves, the GPS receiver would be stratum 0.  The daemon
> that interfaces it would be stratum 1.
>
> While I love Rasberry Pis, I wouldn't use them in this context without
> at least adding a big battery pack to run the thing (or UPS...), and
> proper a high-precision hardware clock.  There are a bunch of
> commercial appliances out there as well.  I've not used them, but in
> the context of "new datacenter", the cost should be a rounding error.
>
> If you have three devices, all getting the time from GPS signals, do
> you really have three canonical sources, or just one?
>
> Within the datacenter, it's more important that the computers have the
> same time relative to each other, rather than relative to the rest of
> the world.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Brandon Allbery <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Mark Baker <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Buy 3 raspberry Pis.  I hate to see money thrown out the door for these
> >> "appliances".  Piggy back on the DNS servers all you need to run is the
> >> daemon.
> >
> >
> > Wouldn't a stratum 1 NTP appliance be something like a GPS receiver that
> > outputs a clock signal, not just an NTP daemon synchronizing to some
> other
> > NTP daemon (by definition that makes it stratum 2 or lower)?
> >
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