Paul Courry wrote:
>
> Our corporate Time Server is a Windows 2000 box which by default runs SNTP
> (Simple Network Time Protocol).
>
> Can (and should) I use this Windows 2000 server as my time source or should I
> punch through the firewall on port 123 to get an outside time source?
>
> The application is a simple Warehouse Management System. Accuracy to 1 second
> is plenty good.
>
> My concern is that I think the two protocols are incompatible (thank you M$)
> and that I need to find a time server running full blown NTP in order to
> succeed.

NTP is adaptive and mature, while SNTP is essentially doing an NTPDATE
periodically to synchronize against an NTP source.

Suggest you take one reliable, full-blown NTP machine, have it synch to
a few outside sources, and then synch everything else to it (via NTP,
NTPDATE, or SNTP).

Jeff

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