[olug] Time

[Brian Wiese]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 06:56:45 -0600
patricks at digitalrom.com (PS) wrote:

|Also,  you mentioned not 
|to use 1st tier ntp servers, why not? Just learning.

These are like the 'root' servers, they have direct access I'd bet to the
NIST atomic clocks and such.  Just like every user on the internet
shouldn't query the root DNS servers for every request, but go through the
heirarchy of DNS caches through their upstream providor/ISP, so too with
NTP time requests... it's just too much burden to have everyone request
from the 'source'... so use a 2nd tier.

With network latency over the internet, and going by atomic time, you
might only be off by a fraction of a second to the atomic clocks.  Not
really a big deal for me. =)

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