Re: [CentOS] ntp time server

2009-07-22 Thread Scott McClanahan
Not knowing what country your from but at a U.S. taxpayer I have no reservations about using time.nist.gov myself, some people think it's rude to directly query stratum 1 servers. I typically have 2-3 NTP servers per location behind a load balancer and my internal servers sync against the load b

Re: [CentOS] ntp time server

2009-07-21 Thread Ron Loftin
On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 18:36 -0400, Andy Harrison wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Scott Silva wrote: > >> > > If there are other interfaces available, FreeBSD does well as a timeserver > > with SOME GPS receivers. But if it is working OK, I would just leave it > > running unless the hardw

Re: [CentOS] ntp time server

2009-07-21 Thread Andy Harrison
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Scott Silva wrote: >> > If there are other interfaces available, FreeBSD does well as a timeserver > with SOME GPS receivers. But if it is working OK, I would just leave it > running unless the hardware is going south. > It's not so much that the hardware is curren

Re: [CentOS] ntp time server

2009-07-21 Thread Scott Silva
on 7-21-2009 12:29 PM Andy Harrison spake the following: > Currently, my time server is a Sun v240 with a 32-pci gps card (with a > proprietary Solaris driver) attached to our gps receiver via an sma > cable up to the roof of my building. As I'm migrating almost all of > our Solaris servers and se

Re: [CentOS] ntp time server

2009-07-21 Thread Andy Harrison
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 5:16 PM, nate wrote: > > Not knowing what country your from but at a U.S. taxpayer I have > no reservations about using time.nist.gov myself, some people > think it's rude to directly query stratum 1 servers. My server already is a stratum 1 time server. I use other extern

Re: [CentOS] ntp time server

2009-07-21 Thread nate
Andy Harrison wrote: > Currently, my time server is a Sun v240 with a 32-pci gps card (with a > proprietary Solaris driver) attached to our gps receiver via an sma > cable up to the roof of my building. As I'm migrating almost all of > our Solaris servers and services over to CentOS, I'd like to k

Re: [CentOS] ntp time server

2009-07-21 Thread Andy Harrison
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > Since we don't have any pressing need for a high-precision time source, > we just sync our main server to the public ntp.org pool and then have > everything else in the building sync to the main server. > We do have a pressing need for high-pr

Re: [CentOS] ntp time server

2009-07-21 Thread Bowie Bailey
Andy Harrison wrote: > Currently, my time server is a Sun v240 with a 32-pci gps card (with a > proprietary Solaris driver) attached to our gps receiver via an sma > cable up to the roof of my building. As I'm migrating almost all of > our Solaris servers and services over to CentOS, I'd like to k

[CentOS] ntp time server

2009-07-21 Thread Andy Harrison
Currently, my time server is a Sun v240 with a 32-pci gps card (with a proprietary Solaris driver) attached to our gps receiver via an sma cable up to the roof of my building. As I'm migrating almost all of our Solaris servers and services over to CentOS, I'd like to know what other people are usi