From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Dec 10 12:17: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from bigcity.net (mail.bigcity.net [206.222.176.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5345D1596F for ; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 12:07:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from josh@bigcity.net) Received: from enigma [206.222.176.65] by bigcity.net (SMTPD32-5.05) id AF05C61B0118; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 14:13:57 -0600 Message-ID: <005101bf434a$1ddfa460$41b0dece@bigcity.net> From: "Josh Bell" To: References: <199912101234.MAA12252@post.mail.areti.net><14417.6971.512702.374961@bogon.kjsl.com><19991210120334.A16989@staff.msen.com> <14417.13075.884729.244757@bogon.kjsl.com> Subject: Re: Setting time and date via ntp. Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 14:06:59 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Can you not use ntpdate? I know that a stock system of FreeBSD comes with ntpdate, even as far back as 2.2.2 if not earlier. I dont see why this isnt possible to be used. What are the advantages on xntpd over ntpdate or vise versa? -Josh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Javier Henderson" To: "Michael R. Wayne" Cc: Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 11:06 AM Subject: Re: Setting time and date via ntp. > Michael R. Wayne writes: > > > Out of curiosity, is anyone running xntpd w/ 250+ virtual domains? > > On another version of BSD we had problems with xntpd trying to open > > a channel on every virtual IP address and croaking because it was > > out of sockets. Typically we just toss a /24 onto each web server > > and we've taken to installing a custom hack of xntpd that stops > > after N interfaces regardless of what they are. > > I've xntpd running on a 2.2.8 machine with 35 virtual domains, > and I don't see the problem you're seeing. > > -jav > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message