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Date:      Fri, 2 Nov 2007 14:34:05 +0000
From:      RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Now it is ntpd that can't find anything
Message-ID:  <20071102143405.1f20bdbd@gumby.homeunix.com.>
In-Reply-To: <20071102024656.GR12846@ayvali.org>
References:  <ac0f81c2a8364773987d79c9d56c3adf@prodigy.net> <200710310649.l9V6n6XG014645@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <51d1f4b108ff6e9f366b71b3d44a6f0e@prodigy.net> <20071101191807.GJ12846@ayvali.org> <c64c5ac15bd59cf92ac0ef7bc49b5447@prodigy.net> <20071102024656.GR12846@ayvali.org>

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On Thu, 1 Nov 2007 22:46:56 -0400
"N.J. Thomas" <njt@ayvali.org> wrote:

> * jekillen <jekillen@prodigy.net> [2007-11-01 15:43:53 -0800]:
> > These are the servers I have listed:
> [...]
> > I suppose I should find ones that are reachable via ipv4.
> 
> Better yet, use the NTP Pool Project. If you including the following
> in your ntp.conf:
> 
>     server 0.pool.ntp.org prefer
>     server 1.pool.ntp.org prefer
>     server 2.pool.ntp.org prefer

You don't need any of the prefers. Using prefer like this simply
disables the clustering algorithm, and degrades the accuracy. 



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