"Danny Mayer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Maarten Wiltink wrote:
>> [...] I reacted to your statement that having a single (real) server >> Will Not Work. I still think it will. > What works is that it will give you a time, but it is quite likely that > it will not be the correct time. You may as well use your wristwatch. We all know that correct is not an absolute. The offset is never 0 ms from UTC all of the time. The offset distribution that results from using a single server may be good enough for many. And NTP has benefits beyond having the correct (to any degree) time. [...] >> Summarising, you were right that it wasn't going to work "this way". >> But "this way" wasn't one server, it was a particularly bad combination >> of two. Can you describe a situation where having a single server >> really _doesn't work_, rather than aggravating problems that are simply >> less pressing with three? > > No, it will work, but is there a point? If you can get to one external > server then the chances are you can get to more and it takes no more > than a few seconds to set up. ... Now *there*'s a good point. Groetjes, Maarten Wiltink _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.isc.org https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
