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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: NTp sources that work in a datacenter (was Re: Is latency equivalent to RTT?)
In message <[email protected]>, Joel Jae ggli writes: > > >Also if you just need a high level of syncronization between the time on >all your hosts you can just deploy one standalone ntp server, sync it >against public time sources and get everything synced against that. its >probably a 95% solution to most people's timeing needs. > If I recall correctly, NTP assumes that latency = RTT/2. You might make it work well for his application *if* you set up your tree so that your paths are each one hop, or at least symmetric over your network. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me) http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)
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