NTP Server

Joe Greco jgreco at ns.sol.net
Mon Oct 25 21:01:53 UTC 2010


> On 25/10/2010 15:56, Joe Greco wrote:
> > Four is, IMHO, the best number of servers to have.  They do not need to be
> > fast or modern machines.
> 
> They do need to have a somewhat unbroken internal clock.

That's a good point.

> This tends to mean that running ntp on a VM is not generally a good idea.

Running it on a busy host of any kind is not generally a good idea.

... JG
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