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Date:      Thu, 13 Sep 2001 21:53:32 -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:  <20010913215332.A7683@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <000801c13cc0$f907a620$14ce21c7@avatar.com>
References:  <20010913202523.A15365@dan.emsphone.com> <000801c13cc0$f907a620$14ce21c7@avatar.com>

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In the last episode (Sep 13), Kory Hamzeh said:
> > If you didn't want that precision, why did you pick
> > clepsydra.dec.com (a strat-1 time server) in the first place?
> 
> That was one of the choice sysinstall gave me.

I see I need to submit a PR then :)
 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> Hey, how did you know they were two hops from me?

I just did a traceroute to you and ran each host through ntptrace. 
Most ISPs run NTP on their routers and email/dns servers.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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