On 4/26/13, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 26/04/2013 17:54, Nick Khamis wrote: >> 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? > > > No, it's not THAT much effort. You can get by with installing ntpd on a > single machine, pointing it at the upstream time server and pointing all > your clients to it. It's clearly recorded in the config file, you can't > go wrong. > > It's understanding how this weird thing called time works that is the > issue. Take for example leap seconds..... urggggggggggg... > > The basic question I suppose is why do you want to do it this way? What > do you feel you will gain by doing it yourself? > > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan.mckin...@gmail.com > > >
Hello Alan, Thank you so much for your time. Our voip cluster time always vary for some reason.... And with long distance, that could mean upwards to a dollar a call. N.
