Tuesday, July 6, 2021

Why not use a router as an NTP server instead of an external NTP source or dedicated NTP server?

My noob reasoning is, NTP is just used to have all devices synchronized in time, right?

So, isn't using an external NTP source unintuitive because of the latency?

I know I am wrong but can't figure out why. I read in a stackover flow thread too that NTP isn't about just keeping times synchronized and configuring a router as NTP master is never a good idea. But they didn't reason why.

What's the real purpose of NTP?



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