From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 24 19:18:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA26983 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 19:18:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA26976 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 19:18:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA04531; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 12:47:42 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id MAA16761; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 12:47:40 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981025124740.D16609@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 12:47:40 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Dan Nelson , Brendan Kosowski , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Time calibration ? References: <19981024201015.B29492@emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19981024201015.B29492@emsphone.com>; from Dan Nelson on Sat, Oct 24, 1998 at 08:10:15PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 24 October 1998 at 20:10:15 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Oct 25), Brendan Kosowski said: >> >> Is it possible for me to calibrate my FreeBSD box to an accurate time >> server ? > > Yes, definitely. See the ntpdate and ntp manpages and edit /etc/rc.conf > to enable. > >> Does anyone have the URL of one of these servers ? > > Your ISP seems to run one two hops away from you at > Fddi0-0.lon7.Melbourne.telstra.net (139.130.239.228). Innteresting. Where did you discover this server? It's not in the lists, and it turns out to be the most accessible for me as well. > For others, most likely much farther away, see > http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ and hit the "Public NTP Time > Servers" link. Or just select http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.htm directly and save hunting. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message