From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 31 19:55:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA26943 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 19:55:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA26937 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 19:55:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA19894; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 19:55:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 19:55:42 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: dkelly@hiwaay.net cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I synchronize FreeBSD time to a Solaris 2.5.1 machine ? In-Reply-To: <199710310050.SAA29361@nospam.hiwaay.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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