From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 2 08:45:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA07941 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 08:45:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from gate.leissner.se (gate.leissner.se [193.45.192.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA07933 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 08:45:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from leissner.se (nuucp@localhost) by gate.leissner.se (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id SAA02902 for freebsd.org!questions; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 18:49:24 +0200 Received: from lda.leissner.se by lda.leissner.se id aa15786; 2 Apr 96 18:44 SST Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960402174451.007070e8@lda> X-Sender: pol@lda X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 18:44:51 +0100 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Peter Olsson Subject: Public NTP-servers? Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello! We want to move our computers to a central time source to remove timedifferences and be able to set all clocks at one server only. I have read the manpage for xntpd, which we intend to use. As I understand it, configuration should in the clients be: server and in the server: broadcast . But there are, if I'm not mistaken, also public, national (or international?) ntp-servers from where you can obtain absolute correct time, to remove all the need for setting the clock??? Or there should at least be ... :) My questions are: 1. Am I right? 2. If I'm right, where can I find such a public NTP-server ... 3. ... and how do I configure this, just server in all my computers, or something else? 4. If my simple guesses at configuration above are wrong, could some generous human being please send me a configuration-example? It seems to me that it shouldn't be this easy, so I must have missed something :) Thanks for your time! Peter Olsson pol@leissner.se