From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 5 23:33:46 2002 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 F0D6937B400 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 23:33:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grieg.a1.transfer.nl (iwww.transfer-edagroup.com [193.173.28.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A3A043E65 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 23:33:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tar@transfer.nl) Received: from geronimo ([10.1.2.86]) by grieg.a1.transfer.nl (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian -4) with SMTP id g866Xcm4019854; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 08:33:38 +0200 From: "Robert Tan" To: , Subject: RE: ntp Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 08:33:38 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20020905225300.GA19894@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG But I don't have ntpd running, at least I don't see it in the ps -ax output. Neither have I set it in my /etc/rc.conf to YES. robert. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Daniel Bye > Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 12:53 AM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: ntp > > > On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 10:15:51PM +0200, Robert Tan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Im running a machine who has a ppp link1 on a ISDN line. > > So when traffic is requested on the interface (isp0) the > > system dials in. > > > > Now my machine sends out periodic ('bout every 6 minutes), ntp > > requests. I don't want this - it's too expensive. But I can't > > figure out why this happens, Im not having the ntpd waiting in > > the background. > > > > A tcpdump output: > > > > 21:59:49.575473 IPCP 14: Conf-Ack(22), IP-Comp VJ-Comp > > 21:59:53.582708 IP 80: MyAddres.4351 > 194.159.73.44.ntp: > v3 client strat > > 0 poll 0 prec 0 > > 21:59:53.634576 IP 80: 194.159.73.44.ntp > MyAddres.4351: > v3 server strat > > 2 poll 0 prec -17 [tos 0x10] > > I'm guesing you have xntpd_enable="YESS" in /etc/rc.conf? If so, set it > to "NO", issue `killall ntpd' now, and it will stop dialling in for you. > > I don't use ISDN, but I'm sure there must be some way of triggering a > script once the interface is started and the link established. Use > ntpdate, or better, ntpd -q, to synchronise your host's clock. > > HTH > > Dan > > -- > Daniel Bye > > PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc > PGP Key fingerprint: 3D73 AF47 D448 C5CA 88B4 0DCF 849C 1C33 3C48 2CDC > _ > ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) > - against HTML, vCards and X > - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message