From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 2 20:42:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA79C37B4C5 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 20:42:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eA34elJ07236; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 22:40:47 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 22:40:47 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: j mckitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ntp servers? Message-ID: <20001102224047.A1613@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20001103042510.A27062@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <20001103042510.A27062@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from "j mckitrick" on Fri Nov 3 04:25:10 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Nov 03), j mckitrick said: > Does anyone know where there is a list of current ntp servers? All > the ones I have tried say no suitable server found. I think I am > doing it right: > ntpdate x.y.edu or whatever, run as root of course. The first place you should look is your own ISP. They have to synch their clocks somehow, and it's better to synch to sites close to you, net-wise. For example, the mailhost your machine used to send your message (mailrouter1.mcc.ac.uk) is an NTP server. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message