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Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 15:52:03 +0100
From: Tom Hukins <tom@FreeBSD.org>
To: Dima Dorfman <dima@trit.org>
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Subject: Re: Please review: NTP section for Handbook
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On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 06:43:42AM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote:
> Tom Hukins <tom@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > I've updated the document at
> > http://people.FreeBSD.org/~tom/tmp/ntp.sgml to incorporate all the
> > suggestions I received.
> 
> Attached is a patch that fixes some more minor problems.  Most of the
> changes are mechanical, such as &man.ntp.8; -> &man.ntpd.8; and other
> such typos.  The only non-mechanical change is about the driftfile.
> Your explanation was a ways off; it does not countain "information
> about previous responses from the NTP servers you are using".  In
> fact, I think ntpd can compute the drift without an external time
> source.

Thanks for your help.  I'm far from an NTP guru, and having read some
more I've got a better understanding of what's going on.  I've updated
the document (again) taking your feedback into account.

Tom

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