LOL!
On 2/02/2019 1:05 PM, Rob Thomas wrote: > I am perfectly happy to sell anyone who wants one a Rasperry Pi in a > big heavy metal box. I'll stick 'SUPER ACCURATE NTP SERVER' on the > front, and you just need to plug it in. I think AUD$1000 ex GST sounds > acceptable. Please form an orderly queue to the left. For an EXTRA > $800, I'll stick a GPS Time source in there, and it can be a Stratum 1 > time server, rather than Stratum 2. > > (Yes, this is humour. If someone REALLY wants to do this, please > contact me off-list, and I'll happily step you through it - you're > looking at less than AUD$100 in hardware to create a Stratum 2 NTP > server) > > > On Sat, 2 Feb 2019 at 11:54, Mark Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sat, 2 Feb 2019 at 12:35, Michael Junek <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Thats correct. Windows only has a SNTP client implemented, and not an NTP >>> client. As such, it can only query a single NTP server, and does not have >>> the algorithms to determine the accuracy of the time sources. >>> >>> >> If that's the case, I'd buy/find a 3rd party NTP client for my Windows >> boxes. (Don't have any so don't have this problem.) >> >> >> >>> >>> ________________________________________ >>> From: AusNOG <[email protected]> on behalf of O'Connor, >>> Daniel <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Saturday, 2 February 2019 12:31 >>> To: Mark Smith >>> Cc: <[email protected]> >>> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] NTP Best Current Practices Internet Draft >>> >>>> On 2 Feb 2019, at 11:48, Mark Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> The problem that occurred with 0.au.pool.ntp.org proving bad time >>>> wouldn't have had an effect if the Windows domain controller had at >>>> least 2 other NTP time sources. >>> The behaviour of OPs system implies that a PDC does not use more than one >>> clock source. >>> >>> If that is true (I have no idea, but googling suggests it may be so) then >>> you are going to end up relying on a single time server. In that case you >>> are probably better firing up a tiny Linux VM running only ntpd (or chrony >>> etc etc) which is configured for multiple pool servers and then point your >>> DCs at that. >>> >>> It does seem pretty ridiculous than Windows server can't behave more >>> sensibly though.. >>> >>> -- >>> Daniel O'Connor >>> "The nice thing about standards is that there >>> are so many of them to choose from." >>> -- Andrew Tanenbaum >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> AusNOG mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog >> _______________________________________________ >> AusNOG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog > _______________________________________________ > AusNOG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog _______________________________________________ AusNOG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
