Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 21:01:09 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> To: Joe & Fhe Barbish <barbish@a1poweruser.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ntpd as time server? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1020112204715.60670A-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOEEFDCMAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>
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On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > My LAN is full of winboxs? Sorry to hear that. :^| > ...Instead of 700 machines hitting the internet time server once a > hour, I would like to setup ntpd to go out to the internet time server > once a hour for a update to the FBSD machine and them have my windows > LAN boxes get the time from FBSD time server [...] Is ntpd the wrong > software product for what I want to do? Does anybody know of something > better suited? I'm no expert, but maybe xntpd would be better; see the man pages. I'm running xntpd on my gateway machine, and all the machines on the LAN look to it as their time server. The M$ boxes run NetTime, which is available from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10109 xntpd (on the one FreeBSD machine) updates itself from any of several convenient internet time servers, as configured in /etc/ntp.conf, but the LAN machines don't trouble the larger 'net. Seems to work. BTW, there is a list of public time servers at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.htm <caveat> The time server machine I'm running is seriously ancient (3.3R); things may have changed here in the mopdern age.</caveat> > Thanks De nada; hope it helps. -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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