From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 24 22:04:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA06800 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 22:04:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ds9.dreamhaven.org (dt091n3e.san.rr.com [204.210.47.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA06793 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 22:04:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from data@dreamhaven.net) Received: (qmail 12409 invoked by uid 1010); 25 Oct 1998 05:03:56 -0000 Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 22:03:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryce Newall X-Sender: data@ds9.dreamhaven.org To: Dan Nelson cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Time calibration ? In-Reply-To: <19981024205135.A1037@emsphone.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Dan Nelson wrote: > Whenever people ask, I suggest that they use their ISP's ntp server as > their server. dreamhaven.net is one, for example. Actually, dreamhaven.net is my domain. :> Unfortunately, the ISP at which my server is located doesn't have their own ntp server (at least, none that I'm aware of). But aren't ntp servers and xntpd peers two different things? ntpdate just updates once; xntpd runs in the background and updates continually. > If your ISP goes down, why bother trying to synch with another IP? > You'll never reach it :) So far I've had good luck. In the 2.5 years I've been colocated with my ISP, it hasn't fallen off the net once. :) ********************************************************************** * Bryce Newall * Email: data@dreamhaven.net * * WWW: http://home.dreamhaven.net/~data * * "Insanity takes its toll. Please have exact change." * ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message