[ntp:questions] VMWare as a NTP server

2015-06-02 Thread Louis Demers
Hello, What is your opinion about using a VM as NTP server? -- __ Louis Demers Analyste Informatique, DTI louis.dem...@dti.ulaval.ca Tél. : 3554 Avis relatif à la confidentialité | Notice of Confidentiality ___ questions ma

[ntp:questions] Leap second info in ntp-4.2.4p4

2015-06-02 Thread Mohan Kannekanti
Hi, We are currently using ntpd version 4.2.4p4. As Leap second insertion is very close, we are trying to be safe from it. here are few questions, - Is 4.2.4p4 capable of receiving "Leap Second" information from NTP servers?? Below is our configuration. "server time.nist.gov maxpoll 10

Re: [ntp:questions] VMWare as a NTP server

2015-06-02 Thread Jan Ceuleers
On 01/06/15 14:45, Louis Demers wrote: > Hello, > What is your opinion about using a VM as NTP server? > Don't do it if you need accuracy. If you can't run ntpd on the bare metal (e.g. for security reasons, or because the platform doesn't support it) and if you can't justify dedicating a small bo

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second info in ntp-4.2.4p4

2015-06-02 Thread Harlan Stenn
Mohan Kannekanti writes: > Hi, > > We are currently using ntpd version 4.2.4p4. Please see http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/ReleaseTimeline and understand your choice. You are running software that was released in December of 2006, and was EOL'd in December of 2009 with 4.2.6, which fixed bet

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second info in ntp-4.2.4p4

2015-06-02 Thread Mohan Kannekanti
Hi Harlan, Thanks for the information. I understand your points. I'm *only* trying to be get leap second fixes at the moment as we don't have much time to test the new ntpd feature across all our platforms. Yes, I'm testing the kernels too. Also, I'll definitely encourage our folks to be par