jdow, thanks on the step-tickers; it provided the sanity
break desperately needed.
For some installations, what time the system thinks it is
(and how accurate that thought) is less important than
having all systems think it is the same time.
Brian Brunner
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>>> jdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 10/31/03 02:31PM >>>
From: "Brian T. Brunner" <brian.t.brunner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 2: a gaggle of peers don't synch up, somebody must be a master. This
> is a flaw to me, implying the gaggle must be asymmetric.
This is not a defect. It is an absolute necessity. If all the systems
are peers then they'll go wandering off after each other and never
reach any form of equilibrium.
> I finally got there. ntp is deployed. Thanks.
And that is a good thing, too.
{^_^}
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