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Re: NTP servers



On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:40:14AM -0700, Adam Morley wrote:
I'm interested in setting up an NTP server on a debian machine with
security in mind, but from my lookings at the official NTP server
(www.ntp.org), the daemon which serves time also updates the local
clock, and hence has to have permission to do so.

It pretty much has to. If it doesn't control the local clock it can't
calculate the local drift and can't serve accurate time.

Mike Stone



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