[ntp:questions] Re: ntp linux daemon drift apart from Windows Net Time Server

Danny Mayer mayer at ntp.isc.org
Sun Jun 4 17:15:20 UTC 2006


Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> <snip>
> Windows versions below W2K3 run a crippled version of the SNTP protocol
> and should not be used as servers in any situation where the correct
> time is important!  Windows only queries its server for the time three
> or four times per day!   There is just no way you can get reliable and
> accurate time from a setup like that.
> 
> Windows 2003 has much improved timekeeping but I still would not want to
> use it as a server if anything else were available.
> 

That's actually in Windows 2003 SP1. It was not in the original version.
It doesn't mean that we recommend it since we have almost no experience
with it.

Danny



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