Re: remote clock sync

[Raul Miller <rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu>]

Dirk Eddelb"uettel:
   Can someone give me a hint about where to find a remote time
   server? As I never reboot with this darn stable 1.2.13 kernel, my
   clock gets badly out of sync. For what it's worth, I'm in Eastern
   Ontario, bordering New York state.

Hint: 
$ dpkg -L | egrep 'doc|info|man'

>From /usr/doc/xntp/notes.txt.gz:

 In the case of a workstation operating in an enterprise network for a
 public or private organization, there is often an administrative
 department that coordinates network services, including NTP. Where
 available, the addresses of appropriate servers can be provided by
 that department. However, if this infrastructure is not available, it
 is necessary to explore some portion of the existing NTP subnet now
 running in the Internet. There are at present many thousands of time
 servers running NTP in the Internet, a significant number of which
 are willing to provide a public time-synchronization service. Some of
 these are listed in a file maintained on the Internet host
 louie.udel.edu (128.175.1.3) on the path pub/ntp/doc/clock.txt. This
 file is updated on a regular basis using information provided
 voluntarily by various site administrators. There are other ways to
 explore the nearby subnet using the ntptrace and ntpq programs. See
 the man pages for further information on these programs.

Also, most files in /usr/doc/xntp suggest ftp to louie.udel.edu for
various bits of documentation.

-- 
Raul