Small windows client I've used for as long as I can remember called "Net Time" allows multiple sources to be configured and runs as a service.
On Sat, 2 Feb. 2019, 12:09 pm Chris Watts <[email protected] wrote: > 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 >
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