From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 17 17:16:45 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 8DF7016A41F for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:16:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 257BB43D4C for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:16:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4091E5FA5; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 12:16:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 39525-01; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 12:16:42 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-122-227.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.122.227]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B727C5E24; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 12:16:41 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <437CBAF9.8000204@mac.com> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 12:16:41 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Andrew P." References: <20051115214101.fb30f4fa.dick@nagual.st> <20051116162615.0a3b7707.dick@nagual.st> <54db43990511170813je8eb1a1ud58d9ef9bbc123ac@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: Bob Johnson , 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 17:16:45 -0000 Andrew P. wrote: > On 11/17/05, Bob Johnson wrote: [ ... ] > 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. The point of using the leading numbers is to make sure the three servers chosen from the pool are actually different machines. If you've only got a small number of machines, having each contact an external NTP server is reasonable. If you've got, say, ten or more machines, set up three of them to contact external NTP servers and each other as peers, and have the rest of the machines on your network talk to your local NTP servers. -- -Chuck