Re: NTP

2011/11/16 Carlos G Mendioroz <tron_at_huapi.ba.ar>

> Why would you put AD servers in between NTP master and CORE
> switches/routers ? I would not trust MS handling of time, based on
> my memories of comments on the NTP.org folks.
>
> Nowadays, http://twiki.ntp.org/bin/view/**Support/WindowsTimeService<http://twiki.ntp.org/bin/view/Support/WindowsTimeService>
> states:
>
> Windows Time Service servers report a precision of -6, and do not
> appear to interpolate time between system clock ticks. This limits
> their absolute accuracy to 116 ms, far below that of the reference
> ntpd implementaion. However, this accuracy is suitable for many
> networks and applications.
>

There's also the problem that cisco routers won't sync with windows time
service. I haven't tried in server 2008, but I know it doesn't work in
server 2003 or 2000.

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Received on Thu Dec 01 2011 - 13:46:30 ART