[AusNOG] NTP Best Current Practices Internet Draft

[Sean Agius]

2019 is RTM now so there is at least 3 years of 2016; but most people are probably still on 2K8 R2 or 2K12(R2) (Being generous)…

The implementation of NT5DS and correctly setup PDCs have never been a problem for anyone, but that is more a sysadmin discussion.


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From: AusNOG <ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net> On Behalf Of Chris Barnes
Sent: Tuesday, 5 February 2019 9:52 AM
To: Paul Gear <ausnog at libertysys.com.au>
Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] NTP Best Current Practices Internet Draft

'stop flogging Microsoft for their decade and a half of shoddy implementation of internet time, their latest iteration finally works!'


Haha that's a good one.

On Mon., 4 Feb. 2019, 6:18 pm Paul Gear, <ausnog at libertysys.com.au<mailto:ausnog at libertysys.com.au>> wrote:
On 2/2/19 3:15 pm, Robert Hudson wrote:
> I say this as a long-time (since NT3.51) Windows sysadmin...
>
> On Sat, 2 Feb. 2019, 12:31 pm O'Connor, Daniel
> <darius-3tTUuF3Go8e6c6uEtOJ/EA at public.gmane.org<mailto:EA at public.gmane.org>
> <mailto:darius-3tTUuF3Go8emAE84gaIGEA at public.gmane.orgu<mailto:darius-3tTUuF3Go8emAE84gaIGEA at public.gmane.orgu>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     > On 2 Feb 2019, at 11:48, Mark Smith
>     <markzzzsmith-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org<mailto:markzzzsmith-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
>     <mailto:markzzzsmith at gmail.com<mailto:markzzzsmith at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>     > The problem that occurred with 0.au.pool.ntp.org<http://0.au.pool.ntp.org>
>     <http://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..
>
>
> The time service is the area where I felt Windows lagged significantly
> behind Linux more than any other. Why Microsoft still haven't adopted
> standardised tzdata and proper NTP is still, frankly, beyond me. The
> issues the Windows time services still cause are crazy...


I never thought I'd be the one doing this, but please, everyone - get
more accurate information before you bag Microsoft's time services.
They've made a lot of strides forward, and have offered a proper NTP
implementation since Server 2016:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/networking/windows-time-service/accurate-time

Paul
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