From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 3 07:33:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA01764 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 07:33:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA01567 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 07:32:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA14260; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 10:31:27 -0500 Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 10:31:27 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9604031531.AA14260@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Greg Lehey Cc: pol@leissner.se (Peter Olsson), questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Public NTP-servers? In-Reply-To: <199604030624.IAA17152@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> References: <2.2.32.19960402174451.007070e8@lda> <199604030624.IAA17152@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > 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. DCF77 doesn't have a good signal outside of Central Europe. ``Real'' (GPS) timecode receivers are much, much more expensive than sending a short packet every 64 seconds. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant