From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 29 7: 1:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F1DE337B69F for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 07:00:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 29 Jan 2001 15:00:51 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 15:00:51 +0000 From: David Malone To: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr Cc: "Morten A . Middelthon" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ntp problems in 4.2-STABLE Message-ID: <20010129150051.A33984@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr on Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:39:18PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:39:18PM +0100, Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr wrote: > you may want to add "cheat codes" to your reference server's ntp.conf, such as : > # NTP server Configuration > server 127.127.1.0 minpoll 4 > fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 0 Fudging to stratum 0 is almost always a bad idea. Fudgint to stratum 12 or 13 is a much better idea 'cos then the damage caused by leaking bad time to the internet is much smaller. We fudge to stratum 14 and it works fine. David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message