On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 13:28 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Generally speaking, the same servers you use for DNS are what you'll use > for NTP. NIST doesn't particularly like it when you use their > timeservers when there's better (ie, closer to you) servers for you to > use. The NTP folk have set up a cool DNS entry, "pool.ntp.org". If you point your time sync'er daemon at that, you get a list of a number of NTP servers, provided at random (or maybe load balanced), who've volunteered to be a server for anybody. Every time you restart the daemon, you get a different list. It's better explained in the dox at www.ntp.org (site seems to be down right now). But whatever you do, don't use NIST (or any other stratum 1 server). They've got better things to do than tell the likes of you and me what time it is. Stratum 2 will keep your clock within a few milliseconds. -- Glenn English ghe@slsware.com
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