From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 30 01:45:36 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 6FA8616A4B3 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 01:45:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns2.buildingapplications.com (ns2.buildingapplications.com [207.111.170.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 372A744017 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 01:45:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from schoensee@rcinco.com) Received: (qmail 74461 invoked by uid 85); 30 Sep 2003 08:45:37 -0000 Received: from schoensee@rcinco.com by ns2.buildingapplications.com by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (clamscan: 0.60. spamassassin: 2.55. Clear:. Processed in 0.518198 secs); 30 Sep 2003 08:45:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rcinco.com) (200.67.228.136) by ns2.buildingapplications.com with SMTP; 30 Sep 2003 08:45:36 -0000 Message-ID: <3F7942AD.2030207@rcinco.com> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 03:45:33 -0500 From: Michael Schoensee User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030925 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Odhiambo Washington References: <20030930070650.GC97601@ns2.wananchi.com> <20030930074515.GD97601@ns2.wananchi.com> <20030930075249.GA13116@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> <20030930081319.GH97601@ns2.wananchi.com> In-Reply-To: <20030930081319.GH97601@ns2.wananchi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 08:45:36 -0000 Odhiambo Washington wrote: >No firewall. > > > I would run the tcpdumps that Edy Lie sugested. >A test against one of your servers, from a FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE and from a Redhat >linux box both give same result, viz: > > Not sure about Africa, but two years ago, here in Mexico, I had to put "ntpdate -t 10 " to make shure, not geting a "no server suitable for synchronization found". That time I were not able to find any timeserver here in Mexico. So I had to get my Time sync from the USA. Saludos