From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 4 20:14:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05AD315064 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 20:14:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA00502; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 23:15:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199908050315.XAA00502@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: How to get xntpd to work In-Reply-To: <19990804215231.A1974@gforce.johnson.home> from Glenn Johnson at "Aug 4, 99 09:52:31 pm" To: gljohns@bellsouth.net (Glenn Johnson) Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 23:15:03 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Glenn Johnson wrote, > I am trying to set up time synchronization on 5 machines. What I want > to do is have one machine, call it host0, sync to a public ntp server > and have the other four machines, host{1,2,3,4} sync to the local xntpd > server. I have read the xntpd(8) and searched the archives but can't get > it. [snip] I do something similar. I have one machine that polls several public NTP servers a few times a day. For local timekeeping, I run timed on machines. The machine doing the NTP polling, the timed master, runs, 'timed -F localhost', and most of the others just run 'timed' with no args. xntpd for local machines (on one LAN) seems like it might be overkill when timed and similar options are available. Just my $0.02. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message