From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 30 01:44:13 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64D7A16A4B3 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 01:44:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from transport.cksoft.de (transport.cksoft.de [62.111.66.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37DA844005 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 01:44:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 122FE1FF8FF; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 10:44:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix, from userid 66) id BEA141FF8FE; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 10:44:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail.int.zabbadoz.net (Postfix, from userid 1060) id F299715383; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:43:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.int.zabbadoz.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E871615380; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:43:57 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:43:57 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" X-X-Sender: bz@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net To: Odhiambo Washington In-Reply-To: <20030930070650.GC97601@ns2.wananchi.com> Message-ID: References: <20030930070650.GC97601@ns2.wananchi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020300 cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Public Time Synchronization Servers X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:44:13 -0000 On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hi, > I have been trying for a whole 2 months to be able to get some good > time servers to synchronize against. I am in the GMT +0300 TZ somewhere > in Africa, but in all this time I don't seem to be able to identify > a time server. I would like to run ntpd, using some atomic time server > for sync. I have read all those literature out there, the only problem > is identifying two or three suitable servers to sync against! Have you had a look at the two lists (especially the second) given at the end of this page ? http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.html PS: I hope you aren't behind a sat link ? -- Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT 56 69 73 69 74 http://www.zabbadoz.net/