At 4:25 PM -0400 2005-10-11, Ted Beatie wrote:
Also make sure that each ntpd instance has at least 4
reliable, consistent, and _working_ lower-stratum servers
configured before you even start ntpd for the first time.
What if we can't guarantee that? The docs certainly seem to say that
the more the better, but that only one is actually required. Some of
our deployments have public internet access, in which case, we can
populate the ntp.conf file on the gateway machines with as many servers
as we'd like. But a fair number of our deployments don't have outbound
internet access, and have only one internal NTP server, if even that.
And yet, we still want at a minimum, for all of our machines to be in sync.
Use either just one, or at least four. Do not use either two or
three. The explanation is in section 5.3.3 at
<http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Support/SelectingOffsiteNTPServers>.
If you really care about having them all in sync, you'll set up
reference clocks at each site, and make sure those servers are
preferred by all clients. Even if the sites in question don't have
Internet connectivity, they can at least get a reference from an
external source like GPS, CDMA, DCF77/CHU/WWV/WWVB, etc....
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