The NTP pool system
The NTP pool system
[Distributions] Posted Sep 21, 2016 1:59 UTC (Wed) by madhatter
NTP, the Network Time Protocol, quietly and without much fuss performs the critical internet function of knowing the correct time. Using it, a computer with imperfect communications links may join a distributed community of servers, each of which is either directly attached to a reliable clock, or is trying to best synchronize its clock to one or more better-synchronized members of the community. The NTP pool system has arisen as a method of providing such a community to the internet; it works well, but is not without its challenges.