From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 27 05:09:36 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 36F8E16A41B for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 05:09:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0073013C459 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 05:09:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) id l7R59YEg038401; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:09:34 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:09:34 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Bill Moran , Modulok , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070827050934.GA55672@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20070825024209.GG5877@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> <64c038660708242059l63288da3pc321a289df6912ed@mail.gmail.com> <20070825190440.GB9340@piglet.digitaltorque.ca> <20070825151403.2a2a247d.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20070827045528.GJ5877@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070827045528.GJ5877@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> X-OS: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: Subject: Re: time issue 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: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 05:09:36 -0000 In the last episode (Aug 27), Michael P. Soulier said: > On 25/08/07 Bill Moran said: > > If this turns out to be your problem, I recommend using > > pool.ntp.org. Read up a bit, it should be much more reliable on a > > consistent basis. Also, OpenNTP has support built in to > > automatically talk to all of ntp.org's servers without any funky > > configuration: http://www.pool.ntp.org/use.html > > The only problem with the ntp pool is that ntp does its best to > factor out problems with specific ntp servers, by learning about > their quirks over time. An ntp pool where the specific servers that > you're talking to change regularly defeats this. ntpd does a single DNS lookup for each server at startup and doesn't shift from them even if the DNS changes, so that's not an issue. > Good enough to keep time on my server though, I suppose, since I'm > not running a cellular network. :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com