Re: [ntp:questions] Why DNS servers should not be NTP servers

2014-06-19 Thread Danny Mayer
On 6/18/2014 2:08 PM, Harlan Stenn wrote: > Others have made good points, and I'll just add that DNSSEC requires > "good time". Irrespective of DNSSEC you should be running NTP on all such servers regardless of DNSSEC, TSIG, etc., especially so that your logs are accurate. Whether or not to allow

Re: [ntp:questions] Why DNS servers should not be NTP servers

2014-06-18 Thread E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists
kartik.u...@gmail.com wrote: > Please let me know your thoughts on the above statement. > I am encouraging the use of atomic time NTP server devices rather than DNS > servers to serve time. > I need to justify, not using DNS servers, to serve time. Please advise. _Your_ DNS servers can certainly

Re: [ntp:questions] Why DNS servers should not be NTP servers

2014-06-18 Thread Harlan Stenn
Others have made good points, and I'll just add that DNSSEC requires "good time". -- Harlan Stenn http://networktimefoundation.org - be a member! ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Why DNS servers should not be NTP servers

2014-06-18 Thread William Unruh
On 2014-06-18, kartik.u...@gmail.com wrote: > Please let me know your thoughts on the above statement. > > I am encouraging the use of atomic time NTP server devices rather than DNS > servers to serve time. > > I need to justify, not using DNS servers, to serve time. Please advise. What are your

Re: [ntp:questions] Why DNS servers should not be NTP servers

2014-06-18 Thread Jochen Bern
On -10.01.-28163 20:59, kartik.u...@gmail.com wrote: > I am encouraging the use of atomic time NTP server devices rather than > DNS servers to serve time. > > I need to justify, not using DNS servers, to serve time. Please advise. Well the *obvious* argument would be that you want your DNS server

Re: [ntp:questions] Why DNS servers should not be NTP servers

2014-06-18 Thread mike cook
Hi, Generalizations such as that have practically no meaning. All I can say is IT DEPENDS. You need to know more about the servers in question. You need to ask: Where will the DNS servers get their time? Are the DNS servers heavily loaded, even intermittently? What qual

[ntp:questions] Why DNS servers should not be NTP servers

2014-06-18 Thread kartik . unix
Please let me know your thoughts on the above statement. I am encouraging the use of atomic time NTP server devices rather than DNS servers to serve time. I need to justify, not using DNS servers, to serve time. Please advise. ___ questions mailing li