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On 4/25/13, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 04/25/2013 10:33 AM, Nick Khamis wrote: |
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>> Hello Everyone, |
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>> We are trying to sync our server's time with an accurate ntp |
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>> server, and was wondering which of the many solutions are |
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>> considered viable. I did see the |
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>> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Time_Synchronization. |
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>> Our services are quite time sensitive. |
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> My best results so far have been to have one node on my network sync to |
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> pool.ntp.org, and to have all other nodes on my network sync to that one |
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> node. Short of having a stratum 1 time server on my network, that seems |
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> to work the best; done that way, my nodes are within a few milliseconds |
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> of each other, near as I can figure. |
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> For contrast, having all nodes sync to pool.ntp.org results in time |
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> variance of up to 2-3 minutes across a dozen or so machines. |
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Thank you so much for your response. Michael, were you using ntp to |
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sync that initial server? If so, can we get that setup up and running |
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easily? I've been putting the time issue |
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off for way too long... |
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Thanks in Advance, |
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Nick |
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