Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 19:55:42 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: dkelly@hiwaay.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I synchronize FreeBSD time to a Solaris 2.5.1 machine ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971031195345.19820K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199710310050.SAA29361@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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On Thu, 30 Oct 1997 dkelly@hiwaay.net wrote: > > You can use xntpd to sync to Stratum[12] timeservers and/or Solaris if > > it supports NTP See: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp -- otherwise, use > > timed. Both are a part of FreeBSD. > > Was looking at this myself this week. Heck, I'd almost be happy if I > could sync the Sun's as they don't have timed. SGI does ship with timed. > > Within xntpd, can one create an averaging sync between systems similar > to what timed does? When dealing with standalone nets timed's a fairly > good solution when one can't convince the boss to buy a GPS as a time > source. xntpd tries to keep everything exact by compensating for net lag. It's been ported to most environments. xntpd makes use of NTP, a standard protocol. As a result it's pretty easy to find hosts out there running servers you can sync off of. It's all a matter of finding someone close enough to get good syncs from. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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