"Richard B. Gilbert" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Rob wrote: >> Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>>> >>>> We use our one of our data centers internal default gateway (Router). >>>> Everything feeds off of that. >>>> It had best work well. It was $100K +. >>>> >>> So what benefit is that $100K extra stratum gaining you? It has to be >>> more than just splitting the UDP/IP path to the lower stratum servers in >>> twain. But it's not reliability, because if your router goes down it >>> still takes your NTP server with it. So what is it? Do you perhaps >> >> The big advantage of such a setup is that all your systems will agree >> on the same time. Locally you have short roundtrip time variations so >> the polls of the local NTP server have small jitter and are not affected >> by the loading of the internet link. >> >> It is usually more important that all systems have the same time, than >> that this time is very accurate. > > If you can get all systems to agree on the time it's usually no more > difficult to get them to agree on the *correct* time! The rock solid > "beat" of a GPS is easy for most clocks to march to! >
Wait a sec, all systems *agree* on a time? It's not a political election process with time management in an AD infrastructure. The PDC Emulator in the forest root is the time source for a forest. There is no Klingon dissention to take over. :-) Just sync that guy, and if it is off, everything else will be. Nothing to agree or disagree on among machines. Ace _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
