Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 13:22:13 -0800 From: Studded <Studded@gorean.org> To: Graeme Tait <graeme@echidna.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, info@boatbooks.com Subject: Re: Time calibration ? Message-ID: <36339685.378054E7@gorean.org> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96.981024182211.363c-100000@ds9.dreamhaven.org> <3632EBDA.FD5F1529@gorean.org> <363353AE.2772@echidna.com>
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Graeme Tait wrote: > That's my question - what does accurate time matter for in a typical network, and > how accurate is good enough? > > I ask because I'm involved in setting up a web/mail/ftp server, and was wondering > whether to use NTP. It's very valuable for applications that communicate with the outside world, if for no other reason than because your logs will have accurate timestamps. :) But seriously folks, accurate time is important for mail, and apache has a section in their documentation about the importance of accurate time for a web server. It's also extremely valuable for transaction based systems where more than one client is accessing a given server or servers. There's more information on the www page that was quoted previously, I suggest you give it a read. Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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