Dave Howorth wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
El 15/03/13 09:27, James Knott escribió:
The big one is to reduce the load on the remote server. It's not considered "polite" to have several devices hitting a public server. Well, you dont use just one server, if you use a server pool you might get dozens of servers to query.
I express my skepticism that behaving NTP clients would pose a major load on resources or bandwidth to public NTP servers.
I agree with that - the whole reason the pool concept was set up was to be able to shoulder hundreds of thousands of clients, e.g. SOHO routers. I still think it's nicer to use a local server if one is available.
All I can suggest to you both is RTFM then.
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... *"If you are synchronising a network to pool.ntp.org, please set up one of your computers as a time server and synchronize the other computers to that one."*
That is exactly what Felix is trying to achieve and what I have recommended in least two postings. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (5.4°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free DNS hosting, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org