Re: [Vserver] Hosts and Guests and NTP; oh my.

On Tuesday 03 July 2007 19:07, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> I need to provide time services for the local network (less than 50
> servers, workstations and Windows boxes) and since that is pretty lite
> weight I'm thinking of putting it into the guest that will be handling
> DNS queries.
>
> But ... I'm pretty sure a guest normally can't change the system clock
> so I plan on having the host run ntpd for setting the "system" time and
> the guest provide the service to the network.
>
> Is this a disaster waiting to happen? Are there any other/better ways
> to do this?

we run several time servers and to be honest i wouldn't even consider making a
vserver guest a time server. let the host do it all. it takes literally no
resources and is easy to configure. our 3 host machines each is a time server
as well, offering ntp service to different portions of our networks.

the time spent in massaging configurations to allow a vserver to serve time,
if it can even be done properly, is better spent in having a nice dinner :)

i have found vservers answer 99.9999% of my needs, but ntp is one service i
would not even consider for virtualizing.

my 2 cents anyway :)
>
>
> Thanks,
> Rod
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