17 Sep
2007
17 Sep
'07
10:02 p.m.
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:28:45 PDT, Kevin Oberman said:
I had a router that lost it's NTP servers and was off by about 20 minutes. The only obvious problem was the timestamps in syslog. (That's what alarmed to cause us to notice and fix it.)
Trying to correlate logfiles with more than a several-second offset is good and sufficient reason in itself to make sure everything is NTP-synched. Of course, if your network runs so well that you never *notice* the offsets because you never have to correlate logfiles, you're probably either a better net admin than I, or merely more oblivious.. ;)