From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Sep 28 10:28:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from aeon.tvd.be (aeon.tvd.be [195.162.196.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB27137B40A; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 10:28:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cocaine.cryolabs.net (cable-213-132-150-78.upc.chello.be [213.132.150.78]) by aeon.tvd.be (8.9.3/8.9.3/RELAY-1.1) with ESMTP id TAA17558; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 19:28:43 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 19:27:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Wouter Van Hemel To: Tom Hukins Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Please review: NTP section for Handbook In-Reply-To: <20010928172412.A50276@eborcom.com> Message-ID: PGP: 0B B4 BC 28 53 62 FE 94 6A 57 EE B8 A6 E2 1B E4 (0xAA5412F0) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Tom Hukins wrote: > The Handbook doesn't currently contain any information on how to use > NTP to synchronise a computer's clock. > > I've put together some information which I hope can be incorporated > into the "Advanced Networking" section, and I'd appreciate feedback > before I commit anything. > > The Docbook source is at http://people.FreeBSD.org/~tom/tmp/ntp.sgml > > - Have I missed anything out, or explained anything badly? > This is just nit-picking, but maybe you should mention that without the 'restrict' keyword in ntpd.conf, people are opening themselves up as a timeserver to everyone on the net, while that may not be their intention. Also, maybe you could add a NOTE: in the 'temporary Internet connection'-section that many providers block ports < 1024 on dynamic ip hosts, which makes it impossible to run the ntpd-server, since replies never reach your machine. I think that this documentation was pretty much needed indeed, nice job! / wouter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message