Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:57:50 -0800 From: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> To: Luke <luked@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Received mail timestamp is off by 7 hours Message-ID: <20050303205750.GK30896@alzatex.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.61.0503021253040.11146@norge.freeshell.org> References: <20050302102908.GF30896@alzatex.com> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNCEKCFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <1529139444.20050302193225@wanadoo.fr> <Pine.NEB.4.61.0503021253040.11146@norge.freeshell.org>
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--GID0FwUMdk1T2AWN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:00:15PM -0800, Luke wrote: >=20 > >>There's no excuse for a mailserver to not be synced to a NTP source. > > > >I'd extend that to apply to any server. Practically all the things a > >server does are dependent in some way on the correct time. >=20 > I have three excuses: > 1) NTP is difficult to configure. I've done it, but it wasn't trivial. ntpdate once at boot. > 2) Finding an NTP server willing to accept traffic from the public isn't= =20 > easy either. For me it involved a scavenger hunt through out-of-date=20 > websites and a lot of failed attempts. http://www.nist.gov/ > 3) If your clock tends to run noticably fast or slow, constant NTP=20 > corrections tend to do more harm than good, at least in my experience. I= t=20 > got to where I couldn't even run a buildworld because NTP kept tinkering= =20 > with the clock in the middle of the process. Same as 1) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" --=20 I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: CEE1 AAE2 F66C 59B5 34CA C415 6D35 E847 0118 A3D2 =20 --GID0FwUMdk1T2AWN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCJ3pObTXoRwEYo9IRAv54AJ0dRP2Eba0uJP0OeG5LfMLoqHrKFACfcQ3w YqqKNwNzdmW2FLt41iOnLqA= =8u5s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GID0FwUMdk1T2AWN--
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