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Re: Cost effective time servers


From: Michael Rathbun <mdr () tesp com>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 10:20:23 -0500

On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 10:39:41 -0400, David Bass <davidbass570 () gmail com>
wrote:

What are folks using these days for smaller organizations, that need to
dole out time from an internal source?

If "internal" means a local NTP server independent of external network
resources, the other responses are apposite.

If "internal" means a stratum 2 NTP server dependent upon other servers on
the network, and if you don't need accuracy in single-digit millisecond or
better range, we've done well with an older ex-Windows machine that now
runs FreeBSD and vanilla NTPD, and is now a pool server at ntp.org.  ± six
milliseconds, cost approaches the cube root of zero.

mdr
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