Chuck thanks for the info. I had the dozen in there for figuring out which ntp server was returning permission denied error. i follow the best practise guide of 4-5 ntp servers and not more.
thanks Parag Chuck Swiger said the following on 9/5/2006 9:46 AM: > On Sep 2, 2006, at 5:27 PM, Parag Mehta wrote: >> thanks for the info. that seems to have fixed the problem, but wouldn't >> that cause the time on the server to keep changing based on the offset >> difference received from various time servers ? > > Yes, but NTPd has some fairly clever algorithms to figure out the best > timeserver available based on reachability, network RTT delay, and > offsets compared with the other NTP servers. If you want your machine > to keep time more reliably than what you get by sync'ing with a dozen > stratum-1 or -2 NTP sources, you'll need to set up a reference clock via > GPS or whatever yourself. > > For human purposes, and for most network protocols like filesharing, a > time offset of less than 10 milliseconds is good enough. > > ---Chuck _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
