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NTP on a cisco switch

I'm running older cisco swithces, 2960, 3750, etc...
I configured ntp via:
ntp server 192.5.41.40
Type: clock timezone PST -7 0

But I was thinking, I should use hostname instead, so I tried to use time.google.com, but I keep on getting a "translating" error.

Any ideas how to fix that?
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Is that it, then I can just use the NTP command with the host name, correct?  Since I have like 12 switches, would it be easier to make one the ntp Server and the other ones the clients, if so is there an article online that details the process?
Yes, that's it, you can use hostnames. If there is no DNS configured to resolve address sure it can't work.
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Thanks guys for your input.