From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 10 17:08:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA18506 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 17:08:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclops.xtra.co.nz (cyclops.xtra.co.nz [202.27.184.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA18498 for ; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 17:08:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker (210-55-210-87.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [210.55.210.87]) by cyclops.xtra.co.nz (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id NAA00559; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 13:07:17 +1300 (NZDT) Message-Id: <199810110007.NAA00559@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: David Kelly , David Kelly Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 13:07:16 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: xntpd Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199810102302.SAA29513@nospam.hiwaay.net> References: Message from Jim Cassata of "Sat, 10 Oct 1998 17:49:51 CDT." X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10 Oct 98, at 18:02, David Kelly wrote: > (moved to -questions) > > Jim Cassata writes: > > > > Is anyone using this or a better way to keep server clocks in sync? It > > doesn't seem to do anything, 4 servers all running xntpd with a > > /etc/ntp.conf (as per the man pages) as follows: > > > > server 128.173.14.71 > > driftfile /etc/ntp.drift > > > > and there is a writable driftfile that never gets written to. According > > to the complete FreeBSD book, the driftfile's presence in the conf file > > tells xntpd to get the time from the server, and it's absence tells it > > to get the time from listening to ntp broadcasts. I missed the original post. Perhaps my website entry on time synchronization will help. See the URL below. http://www.freebsddiary.com/freebsd/xntpd.htm Are all four of your servers going to outside your subnet to talk to time servers? If they are all on the same net, from what I've read, only one of them should be going outside to get synced. The rest should sync from that server. This strategy will do two things: 1 - it lessens the traffic on the internet 2 - it makes all of your net synced from one place. Which is handy if there's a problem. You know where to go. Hope it helps. -- Dan Langille DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - my [mis]adventures http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message