What time server do you use?

Christopher Browne cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Fri May 13 16:43:02 UTC 2011


On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Ori Idan <ori-RdxWQVHs3mjDN57Tih+YPw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> > 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?

By a computation described in RFC 5905.  <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5905.txt>

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