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Re: NTP Server


From: Joe Greco <jgreco () ns sol net>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:01:53 -0500 (CDT)

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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