Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 18:52:52 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, Lowkrantz Goran <Goran.Lowkrantz@infologigruppen.se>, "'freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Securelevel 3 ant setting time Message-ID: <4547.935167972@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 20 Aug 1999 09:26:47 PDT." <37BD81C7.46F9F9E3@gorean.org>
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In message <37BD81C7.46F9F9E3@gorean.org>, Doug writes: >> >> I looked at the man page for xntpd once, and walked away (well, >> VIRTUALLY walked away) scratching my head. It was totally opaque. > > Yeah, I admit it's pretty dense stuff. However once you get a feel for it >IMO it's one of the more amazing pieces of software on the 'net. Take a >look at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/, and especially the list of public >stratum 3 servers. It's generally considered rude to synch a workstation to >a stratum 1 or 2 server, and you won't notice the few milliseconds >difference anyway. Once you have a list of 4 or 5 servers that have good >(and diverse) network topology to your site, put them in a ntp.conf file >like this: Actually, 4 or 5 is too many, it encourages xntpd to switch too often, three seems to be the best and most stable conf. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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