[c-nsp] NTP Servers

Josh Baird joshbaird at gmail.com
Mon Jun 25 10:50:20 EDT 2012


And guess what the Infoblox appliances run?  :)

Josh

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Scott Keoseyan <scott at labyrinth.org>wrote:

> I am with you on the Linux approach but for some of my clients I have had
> good luck with Infoblox appliances as well, especially in enterprise
> network scenarios, serving both DNS and NTP...
>
> Anyone else use these?
>
> --Scott
>
> On Jun 23, 2012, at 6:38 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
>
> > On 23/06/2012 22:12, Mack McBride wrote:
> >> It doesn't take much know how to run a linux server for ntp.
> >
> > "much" is a relative thing.  If running linux isn't your forte, then
> > debugging peculiar problems with linux is going to look like rocket
> science.
> >
> > Again, without knowing anything more about this situation, it sounds to
> me
> > like an appliance + support contract would be the best option for this
> > particular application.  This isn't because you couldn't get linux
> > experience relatively easily, but more because if this were the only
> linux
> > box in a sea of windows servers, there would be a relatively high
> internal
> > support cost: almost certainly higher than the capex depreciation +
> support
> > costs of an appliance.
> >
> > I'd run the free unix option, but that's me - I'm sure you'd do the same.
> >
> > Nick
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