Date: Fri, 26 Dec 1997 19:31:05 -0700 (MST) From: Kenneth Merry <ken@plutotech.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: procedure to adjust clock drift? Message-ID: <199712270231.TAA27023@pluto.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: <199712261753.SAA26396@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Dec 26, 97 06:53:01 pm"
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J Wunsch wrote... > Vladimir Litovka <doka@grunt.vl.net.ua-nospam> wrote: > > >> Calling ntpdate repeatedly in a running system is not a good idea, > >> since it'll cause `time warp's. > > > You can call ntpdate every 1/2 hour, so time warps will be very > > small. About link to the world: I have local NTP-server, which > > sinchronizes with external servers, and set of local stations, which > > sinchronize with my server for reduce load on outgoing link. > > Still, why can't you run xntpd on the clients against your local > server? Apart from some saved virtual memory (for xntpd), i can't > find any advantage in the `run ntpdate every 30 minutes' method. I've got a 486 that won't ever sync up properly with ntp. (i.e. when you do a ntptrace, it always shows itself as stratum 16, etc.) I have to run ntpdate to keep it synced up. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com
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