On 4/26/13, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 26/04/2013 17:27, Nick Khamis wrote: >> Hello Everyone, >> >> Thank you for the many solutions however, I am totally lost as to which >> would >> be most reliable in a collocation setting vs. office desktop. What we >> would like >> is to set up our own ntp server which other servers and desktops in our >> office >> syncs to. Is this advised? If so, is there a nice tutorial online? > > The subject of time is vastly more complex than anyone ever thinks at > first look. Time servers are tiered and are themselves both clients and > servers... > > So here's what you do: sync everything to your ISP's time servers. > Chances are good they do a better job than you can, just like with DNS > caching. > > When you know more about the subject than you do now, you can venture > into rolling your own. I'm not being rude or funny - time servers are > just one of those things that unless you have special needs and LOTS of > cash, it is so much easier to just let someone else do all the heavy > lifting. > > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan.mckin...@gmail.com > > >
Hello Alan, Thank you so much for your response, and I totally understand the effort vs. benefit challenge. However, is it really that much trouble/unstable to setup our own ntp server that syncs with our local isp, and have our internal network sync on it? N.
