On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 23:48, Kenneth Porter wrote:
Many ISP's supply NTP on their DNS servers or their routers, but it sometimes takes a bit of digging to find someone who'll own up to its being there. Ideally the NTP server should be supplied by DHCP and it should an appropriate DNS name (eg. ntp.myisp.com), but few ISP's do this.
When I set up a gateway/firewall on Fedora I always set up and configure NTP properly. Since I have six or seven of these boxen and one public web server, each NTP service is configured to use one other firewall box, the public webserver, and a stratum 2 server as time sources. That way I generate lower load on everyone else.
I'll also offer up all my servers to the pool.ntp.org project, as well. I think it's a great idea, quintessentially representative of the Linux community, and one which many of us should support. See www.pool.ntp.org for more information.