From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 8 00:16:29 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CD8616A400 for ; Tue, 8 May 2007 00:16:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BD5C13C44C for ; Tue, 8 May 2007 00:16:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2F8621F086; Mon, 7 May 2007 20:17:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 07 May 2007 20:16:29 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: YtHTDj7aQ/Pf0fZXb3gTZBjS2Z2J2qxls9ZxoQ/OS7b4 1178583389 Received: from [10.1.10.136] (n114.ewd.goldmark.org [72.64.118.114]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2584814484; Mon, 7 May 2007 20:16:29 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20070508005350.45d53438@gumby.homeunix.com.> References: <20070503014137.I3544@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> <20070503015723.S3544@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> <4639FAB6.9050701@mac.com> <20070504171053.41eddb6a@gumby.homeunix.com> <7967B2A8-3FF5-46AD-AFEA-9EE5C680A414@mac.com> <20070507230246.198b6608@gumby.homeunix.com.> <20070508005350.45d53438@gumby.homeunix.com.> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <204A6323-4E2F-4806-9015-F223E4FDE993@goldmark.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Jeffrey Goldberg Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 19:16:26 -0500 To: RW X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List" Subject: Re: Time Synchronizing Between Two Servers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 00:16:29 -0000 On May 7, 2007, at 6:53 PM, RW wrote: > I was questioning the need for a low-drift system clock on a machine > that *is* running ntpd, not the need for ntpd. Ah, sorry. However, I was adding a somewhat pedantic point of distinguishing between "low drift" and "inconsistent drift". High but consistent drift is better than low but inconsistent drift. Anyway, jdow obviously knows much more about this than I do. So I will defer to her. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/