On Thursday 25 October 2007 15.25:29 Chuck wrote: > i was just reading several documents that used by default the iburst > option for remote servers. is this a 'proper' practice?
IMHO iburst is never really necessary, but its a nice option if you are a
microsecond junkie and want to have a good clock as soon as possible after
system boot. (There may, of course, be serious applications that benefit
from iburst, but I fail to see them - most applications where a good clock
is important tend to run on servers which are rarely rebooted anyway.)
(Hmmm.... this gets me thinking: a way to signal to ntpd that it should
initiate an ntp volley with all its servers right *now* would be good for
systems with intermittent internet connection, especially now that ntpd
rescans interfaces and doesn't need to be restarted if net goes down and
up. Combined with really high minpoll values this could be an interesting
thing.)
cheers
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