David Woolley wrote: > James wrote: > >> I have NTP setup as a heartbeat service in a two-node cluster. If I >> was to offer this service to the public pool, would there be an issue >> with hosts using it when the service failed over to the other node? I >> > > NTP should not be failed over. It should be provided on addresses that > correspond to specific physical machines. Failover for ntpd should be > done by having the client have both machines as servers. > More than that - load balancing NTP through all traditional methods involves rewriting the headers which means that the chain of custody is altered and very possibly destroyed since the latency and asymmetric loading of the LB solution adds to the non-deterministic slop ntp already has to live with.
So the answer is dont apply TCP availability solutions to UDP real time based processes if you want them to work in a proper manner. Todd Glassey > >> ask because currently I don't have a DRBD or network filesystem for >> NTP, I have it configured identically on each node and the service >> just runs on one of the nodes at at time (with a virtual IP). The node >> that isn't the server just ntpdate's itself against the virtual IP >> every so often. >> > > _______________________________________________ > questions mailing list > questions@lists.ntp.org > https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.339 / Virus Database: 270.12.53/2154 - Release Date: 06/04/09 > 05:53:00 > > _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions