On 2/2/19 10:20 am, Cameron Murray wrote:
+1 The NetTime client, and its free!
http://www.timesynctool.com/
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
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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]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> On Sat, 2 Feb 2019 at 12:35, Michael Junek
<[email protected] <mailto:[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]
<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of O'Connor,
Daniel <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>> Sent: Saturday, 2 February 2019 12:31
>>> To: Mark Smith
>>> Cc: <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] NTP Best Current Practices Internet Draft
>>>
>>>> On 2 Feb 2019, at 11:48, Mark Smith <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>> The problem that occurred with 0.au.pool.ntp.org
<http://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
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