From owner-freebsd-security Fri Aug 20 9:55: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1978E14D70 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 09:55:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id SAA04549; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 18:52:52 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Doug Cc: Brett Glass , Archie Cobbs , Lowkrantz Goran , "'freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: Securelevel 3 ant setting time In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 20 Aug 1999 09:26:47 PDT." <37BD81C7.46F9F9E3@gorean.org> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 18:52:52 +0200 Message-ID: <4547.935167972@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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