Terje Mathisen <"terje.mathisen at tmsw.no"> wrote:
> ben slimup wrote:
>>
>> Thank Danny and Dave,
>>
>> Your explanations are nice and clear.
>>
>> so in that case does it means that ntp protocol cannot be load
>> balanced at all??
>
> Rather the opposite!
>
> ntp is by design load-balanced: You enter a bunch of servers for each 
> client, the client will then monitor each server and decide which is 
> currently performing best, sync to this one, while keeping the rest as 
> backup/sanity check.

This is not load-balancing.  This is normally called redundancy or
failover or similar.
Load-balancing is distributing a large request load evenly over multiple
servers, and that is not what ntp is doing when you configure multiple
servers.

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