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.
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Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz(a)simpaticus.com>
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