Time.windows.com is an extremely unreliable time source.  I have seen
timeouts when using that for weeks at a time, followed by one or two of
successful updates, then several more weeks of timeouts.  Pool.ntp.org
is extremely reliable.  I have never seen a sync request time out since
switching to that source.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 10:23 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: NTP, VM's, and domains... Oh My!

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Michael Tellson
<[email protected]> wrote:
> And never user time.windows.com (the default).

  Why not?

  I don't currently have anything using time.windows.com except a few
stand-alone PCs at side clients, so it doesn't really matter to me,
but I'm curious.

-- Ben

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