Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 18:14:54 -0800 (PST) From: Craig Johnston <caj@tower.stc.housing.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: good NTP servers Message-ID: <199601260214.SAA29011@tower.stc.housing.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960125162736.29286B-100000@deepthought.sv.vtcom.fr> from "Jean-Paul POIRET" at Jan 25, 96 04:32:35 pm
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> > They work nice too : > > ntpdate -p 8 time.nist.gov > 25 Jan 16:23:28 ntpdate: adjust time server 192.43.244.18 offset 0.015795 > ntpdate -p 8 tick.usno.navy.mil > 25 Jan 16:24:04 ntpdate: adjust time server 192.5.41.40 offset 0.013828 > ntpdate -p 8 tock.usno.navy.mil > 25 Jan 16:24:27 ntpdate: adjust time server 192.5.41.41 offset -0.002344 > time.nist.gov is of course a stratum 1 server, and if the other 2 are synced to it, they are stratum 2 servers. It is customary to _not_ sync from a stratum 1 server unless a large number of other machines are syncing from you, and then to get permission. It is also generally polite to get permission / inform stratum 2 servers if you plan to use them. Also, if you are just using ntpdate to sync, and not xntpd, using a stratum 1 server is kinda silly. Find a few nice stratum 2 and 3 servers and sync from them. A nice list can be found at ftp.udel.edu somewhere in /pub/ntp -- it might be in the xntpd distribution itself. Lots of nice stratum 2 servers to sync to. -Craig
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