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Old February 21st 11, 04:12 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support,microsoft.public.windowsxp,microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web
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Default How to force Windows XP Pro. SP3 to retry another NTP serverif it fails?

On 2/20/2011 10:11 PM PT, VanguardLH typed:

The only registry entry that I noticed for NTP is to provide a list of
NTP servers. That is, you can increase the list of NTP servers from
which you can pick one for Windows time sync service. So you'll need to
start looking at 3rd party NTP utilities that can try several different
NTP servers. I use Socke****ch (not free) which has a long list of NTP
servers (although I had to edit its list to get rid of the dead ones and
add a few that I knew about since this list hasn't been updated in
years). It tests the NTP servers to find the top 5 best performers and
picks the fastest one from that list, but which one gets used can vary
over time and depends on response from the server, delays in the hosts
in the route, etc. There are several "atomic clock" time sync utilities
available that are free.


Thanks. What do you think of Tardis since it is free?
http://www.kaska.demon.co.uk/tardis.htm for it. I used to use it in
Windows 9x before XP, but it's old.


I've never used Tardis. It's been maybe over a decade since I trialed a
few time sync utilities. I settled on Socke****ch but it isn't free.
It hasn't been updated in a long time but then neither has NTP changed
for even longer; however, I had to decipher the text file used to list
the NTP servers to get rid of the old and dead NTP servers and add in
some new ones.


Thanks.
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