Chuck wrote:
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 19:07, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
I need to provide time services for the local network (less than 50
servers, workstations and Windows boxes) and since that is pretty lite
weight I'm thinking of putting it into the guest that will be handling
DNS queries.
But ... I'm pretty sure a guest normally can't change the system clock
so I plan on having the host run ntpd for setting the "system" time and
the guest provide the service to the network.
Is this a disaster waiting to happen? Are there any other/better ways
to do this?
we run several time servers and to be honest i wouldn't even consider making a
vserver guest a time server. let the host do it all. it takes literally no
resources and is easy to configure. our 3 host machines each is a time server
as well, offering ntp service to different portions of our networks.
the time spent in massaging configurations to allow a vserver to serve time,
if it can even be done properly, is better spent in having a nice dinner :)
i have found vservers answer 99.9999% of my needs, but ntp is one service i
would not even consider for virtualizing.
my 2 cents anyway :)
A very excellent two penny's worth. The plan developed before I
remembered there might be an issue. Not wanting to admit to others at
work it might not be so great I forged on. Thanks for the clue-stick.
Rod
--
Thanks,
Rod
--
_______________________________________________
Vserver mailing list
Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org
http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
_______________________________________________
Vserver mailing list
Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org
http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
