Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 16:17:40 -0500 From: Tom Trelvik <ttt@cwru.edu> To: LukeD@pobox.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Received mail timestamp is off by 7 hours Message-ID: <42262D74.3050907@cwru.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.61.0503021253040.11146@norge.freeshell.org> References: <20050302102908.GF30896@alzatex.com> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNCEKCFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <1529139444.20050302193225@wanadoo.fr> <Pine.NEB.4.61.0503021253040.11146@norge.freeshell.org>
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Luke wrote: > 1) NTP is difficult to configure. I've done it, but it wasn't trivial. It's always seemed rather straightforward to me, what in particular gave you trouble, perhaps we could help? > 2) Finding an NTP server willing to accept traffic from the public isn't > easy either. For me it involved a scavenger hunt through out-of-date > websites and a lot of failed attempts. time.nist.gov is public, and has it's own atomic clock. A google search for "public ntp servers" also found this: http://www.pool.ntp.org/ > 3) If your clock tends to run noticably fast or slow, constant NTP > corrections tend to do more harm than good, at least in my experience. > It got to where I couldn't even run a buildworld because NTP kept > tinkering with the clock in the middle of the process. That suggests larger problems on your system, to me, but I dunno. Tom
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