Date: Wed, 3 Apr 96 9:38:59 MET DST From: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de> To: pol@leissner.se (Peter Olsson) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Public NTP-servers? Message-ID: <199604030624.IAA17152@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960402174451.007070e8@lda>; from "Peter Olsson" at Apr 02, 96 6:44 pm
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> > Hello! > > We want to move our computers to a central time source to remove > timedifferences and be able to set all clocks at one server only. > > I have read the manpage for xntpd, which we intend to use. As I > understand it, configuration should in the clients be: > server <x.x.x.x> > and in the server: > broadcast <x.x.x.255>. > > But there are, if I'm not mistaken, also public, national (or international?) > ntp-servers from where you can obtain absolute correct time, to remove > all the need for setting the clock??? Or there should at least be ... :) > > My questions are: > > 1. Am I right? > > 2. If I'm right, where can I find such a public NTP-server ... > > 3. ... and how do I configure this, just server <w.x.y.z> in all my computers, > or something else? > > 4. If my simple guesses at configuration above are wrong, could some generous > human being please send me a configuration-example? It seems to me that it > shouldn't be this easy, so I must have missed something :) My question is, why do you want to do it this way? Your time accuracy is limited by propagation time, and in Germany at any rate you can get low-cost time receivers which are much more accurate. In addition, you're guaranteed not to have any network charges. Greg
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