Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 21:31:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ntp syncronization Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961001213001.2062R-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961001075325.13561A-100000@harlie>
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On Tue, 1 Oct 1996, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote: > I currently don't have access to the ntp newsgroup, can't find the mailing > list, beat on it until I had a headache, so finally decided to bug someone > here. > > I'm trying to syncronize a subnet of machines using ntp. I've got one > FreeBSD machine that runs stable if we loose our internet connection, and > I'd like to set it up so that its internal clock is considered a stratum > 13 clock source, because while having the correct time is important, > having everyone agree on the time is more important, and if we loose our > connection, everthing falls back to stratum 16, so they won't syncronize > with each other then. >From my understanding of xntpd, it won't latch onto a server unless you specifically provide one in the configuration file. This is using the default connection mode. If you're on broadcast, though, I'm not sure this will work. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet..uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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