On Tuesday 03 July 2007 19:07, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: > I need to provide time services for the local network (less than 50 > servers, workstations and Windows boxes) and since that is pretty lite > weight I'm thinking of putting it into the guest that will be handling > DNS queries. > > But ... I'm pretty sure a guest normally can't change the system clock > so I plan on having the host run ntpd for setting the "system" time and > the guest provide the service to the network. > > Is this a disaster waiting to happen? Are there any other/better ways > to do this?
we run several time servers and to be honest i wouldn't even consider making a vserver guest a time server. let the host do it all. it takes literally no resources and is easy to configure. our 3 host machines each is a time server as well, offering ntp service to different portions of our networks. the time spent in massaging configurations to allow a vserver to serve time, if it can even be done properly, is better spent in having a nice dinner :) i have found vservers answer 99.9999% of my needs, but ntp is one service i would not even consider for virtualizing. my 2 cents anyway :) > > > Thanks, > Rod > -- > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver > -- Chuck _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [email protected] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
