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tolinrome_13817
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Mar 27, 2014

NTP Peer and Server

For NTP server should I use the IP's that are listed externally or an internal NTP server. I cannot connect (for some reason) to the external IPs anyway so I was thinking of pointing it to something ...
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David_Larsen
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Mar 27, 2014

you should point to internal NTP sources that do have access to sync to a better peer on the internet. If the NTP peers you are using aren't better than a Stratum 6 you won't get good time. Usually the NTP configuration will use the management interface so make sure that management IP can get to the NTP source.