From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 19 16: 9:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 504931535C for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 16:09:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) Received: from [208.219.234.47] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id sa072714 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 19:07:45 -0500 Message-ID: <3886529E.F98CD912@twave.net> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 19:11:10 -0500 From: Walter Brameld X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: time sync problem--ntpdate AND xntpd?? References: <200001192325.AAA33587@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Walter Brameld wrote in list.freebsd-questions: > > How does one go about finding reliable time sources? > > Try asking your ISP. Many have stratum-1 NTP servers. > Or try looking for one at a university or other organization > which is not too many network hops away, and which provides > such service to the public. > > You can also build your own stratum-1 NTP server, just buy > an appropriate reference clock which is supported by xntpd, > e.g. a GPS or DCF receiver. With a good GPS receiver, you > can achieve accuracy in the range of µs, but those are a bit > expensive. DCF77 receivers, which are quite popular in > Europe, are much cheaper but less accurate (in the ms range), > but it should still be enough for private use. > > Regards > Oliver Thanks For the reply Oliver. By the way, what does..... > "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" > (Terry Pratchett) mean? -- Walter in·tel·lec·tu·al (ntl-kch-l) n. Someone who has been educated past his/her level of intelligence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message