[nycbug-talk] dealing with drift

[Dan Langille]

On 28 Feb 2005 at 12:33, George Georgalis wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 12:17:52PM -0500, Isaac Levy wrote:
> >Hi All,
> >
> >I was just wanting to post on some of the post-meeting conversations 
> >I've repeatedly over-heard about managing time-drift across clusters of 
> >machines- (you know who you people are...)
> >
> >How do folks like to do this?  Special tools beyond rockin' timed?  
> >Anyone know any good urls on the topic (either practical or acidemic)?
> 
> Am I missing something here? Isn't the obvious answer, for a cluster, to
> configure the headnode (whether is connected to internet and synced or
> not) to answer ntp queries from nodes, and configure the nodes ntp time
> server to use their headnode?  /usr/ports/net/ntp
> 
> // George
> 
> >P.S. below, (since I'm talking about time), ikepoch script (for Hans?)
> 
> interesting, now I can calculate my own poch time!

Sounds like much the same way I manage my home network.  My gateway 
acts as time master, and all other machines on my network sync with 
it.  In turn, the gateway syncs with an external source.
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