Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 00:51:06 +0100 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proper Method of Time Sync? Message-ID: <200604150051.10024.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <20060414155343.GD89228@dan.emsphone.com> References: <5507.208.11.134.3.1145029242.squirrel@mail.dfwlp.com> <20060414155343.GD89228@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Friday 14 April 2006 16:53, Dan Nelson wrote: > ntpd takes a while to sync up and by default won't adjust the clock if > it's more than 1000 seconds off, so it's a good idea to enable ntpdate > as well. What bothers me about that is that ntpdate uses a single server to determine the time. I can't recall the reference, but I recently read a "horror story" where someone synched off a timeserver that had been set to 2038 for testing purposes.
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