What time server do you use?

Ori Idan ori-RdxWQVHs3mjDN57Tih+YPw at public.gmane.org
Fri May 13 16:13:40 UTC 2011


>
> > It uses the time server that it determines is the best reference, and
> > disciplines the *kernel's* clock, which is based on your system's
> > timer hardware (and ultimately the system's oscillator) as opposed to
> > any RTC hardware.
> >
>
> And just to be a bit pedantic, ntpd doesn't concurrently use all the
> servers it tracks. It keeps detailed statistics on them all, but
> selects the best one to use as its sole reference, until one of the
> others proves itself better.
>

How does it determines what is a good server?

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Ori Idan
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