[ntp:questions] running NTP as server only

unruh unruh at wormhole.physics.ubc.ca
Thu Aug 19 05:34:51 UTC 2010


On 2010-08-17, folkert <folkert at vanheusden.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to run the NTP daemon only as a server and not as a
> local-clock maintainer?
> Reason: I have a virtual machine which gets its time via the vmware
> tooling from the hardware server it is running on. Now this virtual
> machine needs to distribute the time to clients.

Aarrgdaagh. Why would you have a virtual machine, with its remarkably
unreliabl e clock serve its time to others?

>
>
> Folkert van Heusden
>




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