Ward William E DLDN wrote:
> He could also do rdate or ntp to a known timeserver on the Internet
> during bootup, or periodically (rdate -s as a cron job is an
> excellent way to keep a box synchronized with an external
> timeserver). As always, however, if you are attaching to a particular
> timeserver with any frequency (i.e., you've automated it) it is
> MORE than reasonable that you should contact the sysadmins first
> and get their permission, unless they have a purely public server
> (there are a few Stratum 1 servers that have no guest requirements,
> and prefer that folks just attach as needed; for most purposes, even
> a Stratum 2 or 3 is more than adequate).
>
> Bill Ward
Unless you are going to be serving a large subnet, The ntp docs suggest that
you don't go against a stratum 1 server to keep the load down. At least that
was the suggestion a couple of years ago when I started using ntp so I use a
stratum 2 at the office since I only serve the time to about 15 machines and
a few milliseconds really does not matter anyway.
Bret
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