Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 20:25:23 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Kory Hamzeh <kory@avatar.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xntpd poll rate Message-ID: <20010913202523.A15365@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <000501c13cb4$0418d280$14ce21c7@avatar.com> References: <000501c13cb4$0418d280$14ce21c7@avatar.com>
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In the last episode (Sep 13), Kory Hamzeh said: > I'm running xntpd 4.3e and using clepsydra.dec.com and the master > clock source. Everything is working perfectly. I noticed that it > polls clepsydra every 2 minutes. I would like to extend this time > mainly because I don't need that kind of precision and do not want to > put an un-needed load on a public server. I've read the man pages 3 > times, and can't seem to see any config file options that I can use > to set the poll rate. Did I miss something? Ntp automatically cranks down the polling rate as it calculates the drift on your local clock. It may take a few hours for this to happen. If you didn't want that precision, why did you pick clepsydra.dec.com (a strat-1 time server) in the first place? http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.htm lists a boatload of strat-2 servers you can pick from. Better yet, use one of your ISP's time servers. 129.250.29.123, a router two hops from you, is a strat-3 server, and ns2.verio.net is a strat-2 server. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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