On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 11:44:53AM -0500, mike@jurney.org wrote: > Also note that the ntp people prefer you to use a stratum-2 or stratum-3 > server, not a stratum-1 server like time.nist.gov. The load on stratum-1 > is already extraordinarily high keeping the other strata in sync, so the > added load of workstations that could use a lower stratum should be > avoided. Pick 5 - 10 servers from this list: > > http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/clock2.html > > and put them in your ntp.conf file. Ntpd will handle finding the best > timesource to synchronize against, and you'll minimize the load on the > core of the NTP network. I certainly don't think you need 5-10 servers! For a typical home user, 2 normally suffice. Your ISP probably has time servers available and you should ask them first since they'll be the closest. I synchronize my Linux server at home to 3 systems (all area universities) and then synchronize my other home systems to my Linux server. The fewer the systems you can synchronize to, the better, unless you have a very good reason for being paranoid (at work, we've also bought our own stratum 1 time server). -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@ewilts.org Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
