From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 15 6:17:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from luna.affordablehost.com (ns7.affordablehost.com [206.104.238.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 95AAC37B405 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 06:17:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 28285 invoked by uid 0); 15 Apr 2002 13:19:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ntmm) (63.119.50.193) by 0 with SMTP; 15 Apr 2002 13:19:08 -0000 Message-ID: <200204150917400859.002A6C7F@luna.affordablehost.com> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020414210331.04fd5e00@192.168.0.12> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020414210331.04fd5e00@192.168.0.12> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.30.00.00 (1) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 09:17:40 -0400 Reply-To: myraq@mgm51.com From: "MikeM" To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ntp problems; am i the only one? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 4/14/02 at 9:09 PM Mike Tancsa wrote: | |I think with ntp it is strongly encouraged to use multiple servers. I |generally set a slew of local CNAMEs and set all my machines to sync |against them. See http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/clock2.htm for a |list. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D You should set two or three internal boxes to sync up with the outside ntp= servers, then have the rest of your internal boxes sync up to your two= "masters". If you are having all your boxes sync up with outside servers, then you are= loading down those outside servers unnecessarily. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message