From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 2 20:32:54 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CDA016A418 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 20:32:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from njt@ayvali.org) Received: from starfish.geekisp.com (mail.geekisp.com [216.168.135.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDC2913C491 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 20:32:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from njt@ayvali.org) Received: (qmail 692 invoked by uid 1003); 2 Nov 2007 20:32:17 -0000 Received: from clam.int.geekisp.com (HELO clam.geekisp.com) (192.168.4.38) by mail.geekisp.com with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 2 Nov 2007 20:32:17 -0000 Received: from clam.geekisp.com (njt@localhost.geekisp.com [127.0.0.1]) by clam.geekisp.com (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lA2KWGfU020540; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 16:32:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from njt@localhost) by clam.geekisp.com (8.14.0/8.14.0/Submit) id lA2KWFbw031094; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 16:32:16 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: clam.geekisp.com: njt set sender to njt@ayvali.org using -f Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 16:32:15 -0400 From: "N.J. Thomas" To: RW , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071102203215.GW12846@ayvali.org> References: <200710310649.l9V6n6XG014645@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <51d1f4b108ff6e9f366b71b3d44a6f0e@prodigy.net> <20071101191807.GJ12846@ayvali.org> <20071102024656.GR12846@ayvali.org> <20071102143405.1f20bdbd@gumby.homeunix.com.> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071102143405.1f20bdbd@gumby.homeunix.com.> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: Subject: Re: Now it is ntpd that can't find anything X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:32:54 -0000 * RW [2007-11-02 14:34:05 +0000]: > > 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. Yeah, I had copied this out of my larger config file which had other servers non-essentials listed in there, I should have removed the prefer tags before giving it to OP. Thomas -- N.J. Thomas njt@ayvali.org Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo