From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 2 08:24:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA15200 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 08:24:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA15182 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 08:24:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA14984; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 17:22:46 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay Message-Id: <199610021522.RAA14984@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: timed vs. NTP In-Reply-To: from Andrzej Bialecki at "Oct 2, 96 04:16:45 pm" To: abial@korin.warman.org.pl (Andrzej Bialecki) Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 17:22:46 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL24 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hi, > > I just stumbled across a certain problem: I must use a kind of NTP > between a few FBSD machines (one of them has horribly unstable clock :-( > So I thought the timed would be good for this. But it seems the timed > works only on the same LAN, and my machines are connected through > Internet (several routers between). > Well, I looked for a port of NTP daemon in /ports, but there is none. > Could someone suggest me a way to solve this (I'm prepared even to some > hacking of timed code, if need be...)? > Xntpd is already part of FreeBSD. It should be able to do what you want. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za