Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 19:59:46 +0300 From: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com> To: Bob Johnson <fbsdlists@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ntpdate Message-ID: <cb5206420511170859r4970e381m4832978061c3079f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <54db43990511170813je8eb1a1ud58d9ef9bbc123ac@mail.gmail.com> References: <20051115214101.fb30f4fa.dick@nagual.st> <OF05714E37.11452ACB-ONC22570BB.00538A7F-C22570BB.0053CF95@procreditbank.bg> <20051116162615.0a3b7707.dick@nagual.st> <54db43990511170813je8eb1a1ud58d9ef9bbc123ac@mail.gmail.com>
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On 11/17/05, Bob Johnson <fbsdlists@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/16/05, dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 17:15:24 +0200 > > Ivailo Tanusheff <i.tanusheff@procreditbank.bg> 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 Leading numbers are not necessary in most cases. I use: server europe.pool.ntp.org server europe.pool.ntp.org server europe.pool.ntp.org That selects 3 random servers from the whole europe pool.
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