[ntp:questions] ntp server pool advice

Terje Mathisen "terje.mathisen at tmsw.no" at ntp.org
Tue Dec 27 12:50:58 UTC 2011


Danny Mayer wrote:
> On 12/22/2011 6:40 AM, Terje Mathisen wrote:
>> ben slimup wrote:
>>> those clients will use dns round robin to resolve 4 external ip, 2 IPs
>>> on each site.
>>
>> DO NOT USE ROUND ROBIN DNS for NTP!
>
> You can use round robin dns for NTP. There's nothing wrong with that.
> It's load balancing that must NOT be used as you would get different
> answers from different systems each time.

Sorry, you are of course correct.

I read load-balancer and round-robin in the same message and conflated them.

The pool project is a proof by existence that round robin works well for 
NTP!

Terje
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