[c-nsp] NTP Servers

Sat Jun 30 23:23:14 UTC 2012

On 6/30/12, Grant Ridder <shortdudey123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't understand why anyone would use windows server for anything that
> needed precision like time.

Probably because they realize that in a Windows domain, their domain
controllers already provide a SNTP service with the Windows NT PDC
Emulator providing authoritative time for windows time service, and
all those windows servers can be enabled as a NTP server with a small
configuration change,  and   Windows Domain  clients are required  to
be synchronized with this  using the Windows time service,  as a
condition for Kerberos authentication and domain logon,  for the
configuration to be a supported one.

So, given you already have those capabilities and those constraints...
  how do you justify deploying another server for providing a separate
time service,  running a new OS,  instead of just using the same one
for all hosts?

In many cases  it's not  "Why use a windows time server"  that has to
be justified;
the burden of proof is to answer the question  "What can you say that
indicates you should definitely not use a windows time server for the
application?"   :)

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-JH