[AusNOG] NTP Best Current Practices Internet Draft

[Michael Junek]

Thats correct. Windows only has a SNTP client implemented, and not an NTP client. As such, it can only query a single NTP server, and does not have the algorithms to determine the accuracy of the time sources.




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From: AusNOG <ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net> on behalf of O'Connor, Daniel <darius at dons.net.au>
Sent: Saturday, 2 February 2019 12:31
To: Mark Smith
Cc: <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] NTP Best Current Practices Internet Draft

> On 2 Feb 2019, at 11:48, Mark Smith <markzzzsmith at gmail.com> wrote:
> The problem that occurred with 0.au.pool.ntp.org proving bad time
> wouldn't have had an effect if the Windows domain controller had at
> least 2 other NTP time sources.

The behaviour of OPs system implies that a PDC does not use more than one clock source.

If that is true (I have no idea, but googling suggests it may be so) then you are going to end up relying on a single time server. In that case you are probably better firing up a tiny Linux VM running only ntpd (or chrony etc etc) which is configured for multiple pool servers and then point your DCs at that.

It does seem pretty ridiculous than Windows server can't behave more sensibly though..

--
Daniel O'Connor
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
 -- Andrew Tanenbaum


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