From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Dec 2 17:12:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA03491 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 17:12:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gw.caamora.com.au (jonath5.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.41.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA03481 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 17:12:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jon@gw.caamora.com.au) Received: (from jon@localhost) by gw.caamora.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA22809; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 12:19:35 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from jon) Message-ID: <19981203121934.A22521@caamora.com.au> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 12:19:34 +1100 From: jonathan michaels To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: network time and host synchronisation Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG References: <19981130181836.D15528@caamora.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Daniel O'Callaghan on Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 11:31:46AM +1100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD gw.caamora.com.au 2.2.7-RELEASE i386 X-Mood: i'm alive, if it counts Organisation: Caamora, PO Box 144, Rosebery NSW 1445 Australia Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 11:31:46AM +1100, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote: > Many ISPs set their routers to use NTP and you can take time from nearby > ones, if you feel they are accurate enough. To see what routers might be > using NTP, try 'traceroute www.telstra.net' and then use the command > 'xntpdc -p possible.ntp.host' for each hop. snip...several examples removed. thanks, Danny, i didn't think of that one. i've been grazing teh xntpd and associated stuff for a while now and geting a reasonable picture of how to go about this all. regards jonathan also, thank you to all who replied to teh mailing list and in emial, sorry, for not replying sooner. -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia =========================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message