Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!daemon Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi From: cks@white.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann) Subject: Re: NTP Message-ID: <89Oct13.172654edt.30802@snow.white.toronto.edu> Sender: Organization: Ziebmef home away from home References: <141@ndl.UUCP> <89Oct12.112610edt.3212@neat.cs.toronto.edu> <42894@sgi.sgi.com> Date: 13 Oct 89 21:27:28 GMT vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) writes: | NTP does wonders for synchronizing clocks. However, it requires each host | to be individually configured. That can be a pain in large networks. It depends on what you mean by "individually configured"; often you can get away with a common configuration file on many of your hosts. We run Dennis Ferguson's xntp, and all of our workstations (Vaxen and DS3100s) have a common config file (which points them at our two fileservers). I'd expect that you could easily come up with a common configuration for the machines where you'd just be running timed(1m) on anyways and fault tolerance and falseticker detection isn't such a big problem. [If our servers go south, I don't care what happens to time on the clients; I've got bigger problems!] -- "I shall clasp my hands together and bow to the corners of the world." Number Ten Ox, "Bridge of Birds" Chris Siebenmann ...!utgpu!{ncrcan,ontmoh!moore}!ziebmef!cks cks@white.toronto.edu or ...!utgpu!{,csri!}cks