From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 13 19:53:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0054037B406 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 19:53:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f8E2rWA08641; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 21:53:32 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 21:53:32 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Kory Hamzeh Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xntpd poll rate Message-ID: <20010913215332.A7683@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20010913202523.A15365@dan.emsphone.com> <000801c13cc0$f907a620$14ce21c7@avatar.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000801c13cc0$f907a620$14ce21c7@avatar.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Sep 13), Kory Hamzeh said: > > If you didn't want that precision, why did you pick > > clepsydra.dec.com (a strat-1 time server) in the first place? > > That was one of the choice sysinstall gave me. I see I need to submit a PR then :) > > http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.htm lists a boatload > > of strat-2 servers you can pick from. Better yet, use one of your > > ISP's time servers. 129.250.29.123, a router two hops from you, is > > a strat-3 server, and ns2.verio.net is a strat-2 server. > > > > Hey, how did you know they were two hops from me? I just did a traceroute to you and ran each host through ntptrace. Most ISPs run NTP on their routers and email/dns servers. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message