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. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
