From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 17 16:59:50 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 714D416A41F for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:59:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9E3A43D62 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:59:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 8so1963541nzo for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 08:59:46 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Gb3ZRPQpjprWIdCZAOcqhd3u/Un2wMNPYX3i4ZYUZplhPO2A5G0VRHN3F2LUYGqo3vp4REWuClf9TA9m7VXTwR0mP2NoFZHPS17cHaz0faCssg6fF5uY9CKYhOGMcfcCWKgjD/fgcOAVjC5LVAw9toCTXNe9M6tH+cmg2YXEN2Y= Received: by 10.36.178.18 with SMTP id a18mr7680162nzf; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 08:59:46 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.37.20.33 with HTTP; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 08:59:46 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 19:59:46 +0300 From: "Andrew P." To: Bob Johnson In-Reply-To: <54db43990511170813je8eb1a1ud58d9ef9bbc123ac@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20051115214101.fb30f4fa.dick@nagual.st> <20051116162615.0a3b7707.dick@nagual.st> <54db43990511170813je8eb1a1ud58d9ef9bbc123ac@mail.gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ntpdate X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:59:50 -0000 On 11/17/05, Bob Johnson wrote: > On 11/16/05, dick hoogendijk wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 17:15:24 +0200 > > Ivailo Tanusheff wrote: > > > > > Why you need to do this? > > > Your system is not fully operationl in the time you try to run > > > ntpdate. Just edit your /etc/ntp.conf to connect to some time > > > servers. Per example mine is: > > > > [cut very nice example] > > > > Thank you. I > > You are probably right. I'll get rid of ntpdate in rc.conf. > > I have two timeservers at the moment. I will look for some more in the > > Netherlands. Yours are to far away ;-) > > The easy way to find public NTP servers is to use the public pool, > which gives you a random list of servers each time you do a DNS lookup > on it. You can ask for the pool for a specific continent or country > (when they exist) as well. More info about this is at > > http://www.pool.ntp.org/use.html > > but the short answer is to specify three servers as: > > server 0.nl.pool.ntp.org > server 1.nl.pool.ntp.org > server 2.nl.pool.ntp.org > > Which will give you three different randomly selected public servers > in the Netherlands (actually it gives you three lists, but ntpd will > use the first one from each list). > > Info about availability of participating servers in specific regions > is at http://www.pool.ntp.org/zone Leading numbers are not necessary in most cases. I use: server europe.pool.ntp.org server europe.pool.ntp.org server europe.pool.ntp.org That selects 3 random servers from the whole europe pool.