From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 30 04:23:57 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 6D7AD16A4B3 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 04:23:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns2.wananchi.com (ns2.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C911244037 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 04:23:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wash@wananchi.com) Received: from wash by ns2.wananchi.com with local (Exim 4.22 #3 (FreeBSD)) id 1A4Ibg-000G4E-CF for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:23:52 +0300 Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:23:52 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030930112352.GL97601@ns2.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org References: <20030930070650.GC97601@ns2.wananchi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Disclaimer: Any views expressed in this message,where not explicitly attributed otherwise, are mine alone!. X-Fortune: Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. -- Henry David Thoreau X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE i386 X-Best-Window-Manager: Blackbox X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5.4i (2003-03-19) X-Designation: Systems Administrator, Wananchi Online Ltd. X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. X-Uptime: 2:22PM up 4 days, 6:51, 5 users, load averages: 2.66, 2.23, 2.10 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i 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 11:23:57 -0000 * Bjoern A. Zeeb [20030930 11:44]: wrote: > 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 Yes, I did. Got same errors. > > PS: I hope you aren't behind a sat link ? Downlink, via Teleglobe ;) -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington "The box said 'Requires Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com Windows 95, NT, or better,' Tel: +254 2 313985-9 +254 2 313922 so I installed FreeBSD." GSM: +254 72 743223 +254 733 744121 This sig is McQ! :-) It's lucky you're going so slowly, because you're going in the wrong direction.