From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 12 18: 1:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monochrome.org (b4.ebbed1.client.atlantech.net [209.190.235.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4531837B419 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 18:01:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (faro [192.168.1.7]) by mail.monochrome.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA92891; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 21:01:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 21:01:09 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Hill X-Sender: chris@localhost To: Joe & Fhe Barbish Cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: ntpd as time server? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 The time server machine I'm running is seriously ancient (3.3R); things may have changed here in the mopdern age. > 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