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Date:      Sat, 15 Apr 2006 00:51:06 +0100
From:      RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Proper Method of Time Sync?
Message-ID:  <200604150051.10024.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060414155343.GD89228@dan.emsphone.com>
References:  <5507.208.11.134.3.1145029242.squirrel@mail.dfwlp.com> <20060414155343.GD89228@dan.emsphone.com>

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On Friday 14 April 2006 16:53, Dan Nelson wrote:

> ntpd takes a while to sync up and by default won't adjust the clock if
> it's more than 1000 seconds off, so it's a good idea to enable ntpdate
> as well. 

What bothers me about that is that ntpdate uses a single server to determine 
the time. I can't recall the reference, but I recently read a "horror story" 
where someone synched off a timeserver  that had been set to 2038 for testing 
purposes.



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