On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Brad Knowles wrote: > [email protected] wrote: > >> in practice this works. the clients will pick one of the two time servers >> and use it, but if it goes away they will use the other one. > > And in practice, I'm sure that some people find that running every red light > they come to will work for them. > >> you can claim all you want that this doesn't work, but I have a datacenter >> worth of servers that are working with this. > > And I've heard of more than a few people who constantly run red lights. Or > admins that don't have good passwords for their accounts, or home Windows > users that don't run any firewalls or anti-virus software. > > That doesn't mean that any of these ideas is a good one, or safe. Just > because you don't know how unsafe it is, or you don't care how unsafe it is, > doesn't mean that it's an idea that you should recommend to others.
so it sounds like you are advocating configuring all the clients to only point at a single server, and if that server is down for any reason just do without NTP altogeather. how is that a sane configuration? David Lang _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
