From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 17 16:13:32 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60AD016A421 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:13:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fbsdlists@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E61F443D49 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:13:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fbsdlists@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i24so1724715wra for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 08:13:31 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=VfsdxpZffqDpZ5neyVtQ9LjM+IUx2Aqt1xv+naHR/yKURdIS1WI8+OSkMWsTdHsbHx7UMky8cFJkihScLVvJ1JA7o3RSwZO1XVApO0hj7oXaucwFgADR+WQ4r4yRWIW7JLJzw9qRJemvptlAsLSxcoLhqPB+bLsBeIqZoCg8qmk= Received: by 10.64.203.19 with SMTP id a19mr7371378qbg; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 08:13:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.253.2 with HTTP; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 08:13:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <54db43990511170813je8eb1a1ud58d9ef9bbc123ac@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:13:31 -0500 From: Bob Johnson To: dick hoogendijk In-Reply-To: <20051116162615.0a3b7707.dick@nagual.st> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20051115214101.fb30f4fa.dick@nagual.st> <20051116162615.0a3b7707.dick@nagual.st> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ntpdate X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:13:32 -0000 On 11/16/05, dick hoogendijk wrote: > On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 17:15:24 +0200 > Ivailo Tanusheff wrote: > > > Why you need to do this? > > Your system is not fully operationl in the time you try to run > > ntpdate. Just edit your /etc/ntp.conf to connect to some time > > servers. Per example mine is: > > [cut very nice example] > > Thank you. I > You are probably right. I'll get rid of ntpdate in rc.conf. > I have two timeservers at the moment. I will look for some more in the > Netherlands. Yours are to far away ;-) The easy way to find public NTP servers is to use the public pool, which gives you a random list of servers each time you do a DNS lookup on it. You can ask for the pool for a specific continent or country (when they exist) as well. More info about this is at http://www.pool.ntp.org/use.html but the short answer is to specify three servers as: server 0.nl.pool.ntp.org server 1.nl.pool.ntp.org server 2.nl.pool.ntp.org Which will give you three different randomly selected public servers in the Netherlands (actually it gives you three lists, but ntpd will use the first one from each list). Info about availability of participating servers in specific regions is at http://www.pool.ntp.org/zone - Bob