On Tuesday 06 December 2005 11:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Guillermo Ballester Valor wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm wondering it if is possible for SuSE/Nowell to install public NTP
> > time servers. These servers would be set as default in its xntp rpm
> > packages.
> >
> > I'm mantaining a stratum-2 server in my home system with an ADSL
> > connection since three years ago. Many other volunteers are adding its
> > systems to pool.ntp.org
> >
> > http://www.pool.ntp.org/
> >
> > I think that to provide at least two or three stratum-1 servers (North
> > America, Europe, Australia ...) will be not dificult to Nowell.
>
> At the installer, the user provides some localization information. From
> that (most likely the timezone) a location can be derived which can be used
> with the ntp-server to access (for me, in The Netherlands:
> nl.pool.ntp.org).

How is this list maintained? The one's I use (ntp(0|1).nl.net) are not there.

> Then, only if ntp is installed and there is a direct connection to the
> internet.
>
> However: there are other ways to get a reasonable ntp-server: It can be
> advertized in dhcp information, most current Windows Active Directory
> servers do run some ntp protocol to which a workstation can do a reasonable
> sync its clock.

And it even makes more sense than synchronizing to the "real" time, as in the 
majority of the cases what really matter is a uniformity of the time in the 
local network.

-- 
Best regards,
  Alexander.

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