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Date:      Thu, 17 Nov 2005 19:59:46 +0300
From:      "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com>
To:        Bob Johnson <fbsdlists@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ntpdate
Message-ID:  <cb5206420511170859r4970e381m4832978061c3079f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <54db43990511170813je8eb1a1ud58d9ef9bbc123ac@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20051115214101.fb30f4fa.dick@nagual.st> <OF05714E37.11452ACB-ONC22570BB.00538A7F-C22570BB.0053CF95@procreditbank.bg> <20051116162615.0a3b7707.dick@nagual.st> <54db43990511170813je8eb1a1ud58d9ef9bbc123ac@mail.gmail.com>

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On 11/17/05, Bob Johnson <fbsdlists@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/16/05, dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 17:15:24 +0200
> > Ivailo Tanusheff <i.tanusheff@procreditbank.bg> 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.



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