From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 25 05:52:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA14471 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 05:52:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dfw-ix3.ix.netcom.com (dfw-ix3.ix.netcom.com [206.214.98.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA14461 for ; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 05:52:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from graeme@echidna.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by dfw-ix3.ix.netcom.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) id HAA03833; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 07:40:19 -0600 (CST) Received: from prn-nj2-14.ix.netcom.com(199.183.207.78) by dfw-ix3.ix.netcom.com via smap (V1.3) id rma003814; Sun Oct 25 07:40:02 1998 Message-ID: <363353AE.2772@echidna.com> Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 08:37:02 -0800 From: Graeme Tait Organization: Echidna X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Studded , Greg Lehey , FreeBSD Questions CC: info@boatbooks.com Subject: Re: Time calibration ? References: <3632EBDA.FD5F1529@gorean.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Studded wrote: > For instance, Bryce could synch ds9 and voyager as peers, while > synching each to a stratum 2 server outside of his network. It's > generally considered rude for an "average user" to synch to a stratum 1 > server without permission. It's also essentially unecessary, as a good > stratum 2 server will provide more accuracy than any of us will ever > need. That's my question - what does accurate time matter for in a typical network, and how accurate is good enough? I ask because I'm involved in setting up a web/mail/ftp server, and was wondering whether to use NTP. I notice quite a few Internet hosts do not maintain accurate time, and are evidently just running on their internal clocks, being perhaps a few minutes in error. -- Graeme Tait - Echidna To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message