On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 08:08:10AM -0700, Mark Zimmerman wrote: > Greetings: > > With all the traffic on ntp stuff recently, I thought this would be a > good time to ask: > > Is there a better solution than ntpdate on a dialup machine? > Currently, I run it from an ip-up.d script. I was looking to see if > ntpd could run continuously but only make external connections when it > "knows" that the link is up, where "knows" is somehow provided to it > externally. There doesn't seem to be such a capability. > > No big deal, though; at least the ip-up.d script will usually not add > to the thunderclap effect. I run chrony on my gateway. It syncs with a bunch of time servers on ppp-up, and runs continuously to keep track of the hardware clock drift. I've also set it up to provide ntp services to my local network (192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0). Since my gateway is always on, my client machines can just happily sync against it anytime they like, and since I dialup at least once a day to collect mail, it all Just Works (tm). -rob
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