Hi, I'm fairly new to NTP (although I have read a lot of the documentation on the site and in the wiki) and I'm trying to get some expert advice to help with an internal IT discussion occurring in the IT team at my company.
We have about 20-30 linux servers collocated (on two sites - 95% of them on one site) and about 30 windows desktops at a different site. The new Linux sysadmin has noticed that the NTP client configuration on the servers is fairly random (they seem to use various random UK ISP's NTP servers (only one NTP server configured for each box)). Clearly that needs sorting out - but in the course of the discussion there was a debate about whether we ought to get a refclock. Could you give some advice on how we should be thinking about this, what we should consider, and what the pros and cons of using a refclock are. For reference we basically do web hosting for our clients on these servers - some run databases and so on but there is nothing particularly unusual that the servers do. If you think a refclock is a good idea or an important thing to have the one that has been suggested is this one http://www.atomic-clock.galleon.eu.com/Atomic-Clock-Time-Server/Atomic-C lock-Time-Server.htm If on the other hand there is a simple place I can RTFM then please point me to it :-) Robert Hulme Technical Consultant Anthony Hodges Consulting Limited Direct line: (01924) 203904 Switchboard: (01924) 203900 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
