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Subject: Re: ntpd as time server?
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"...xntpd (on the one FreeBSD machine) updates itself from any of several
convenient internet time servers, as configured in /etc/ntp.conf...

...oh, yeah... forgot... the master needs the xntpd to get the time for the
"slaves"...

At 09:01 PM 1.12.2002 -0500, Chris Hill wrote:
>On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote:
>
>> My LAN is full of winboxs?
>
>Sorry to hear that.  :^|
>
>> ...Instead of 700 machines hitting the internet time server once a
>> hour, I would like to setup ntpd to go out to the internet time server
>> once a hour for a update to the FBSD machine and them have my windows
>> LAN boxes get the time from FBSD time server [...] Is ntpd the wrong
>> software product for what I want to do? Does anybody know of something
>> better suited? 
>
>I'm no expert, but maybe xntpd would be better; see the man pages.  I'm
>running xntpd on my gateway machine, and all the machines on the LAN
>look to it as their time server. The M$ boxes run NetTime, which is
>available from
>http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10109
>
>xntpd (on the one FreeBSD machine) updates itself from any of several
>convenient internet time servers, as configured in /etc/ntp.conf, but
>the LAN machines don't trouble the larger 'net. Seems to work. BTW,
>there is a list of public time servers at
>http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.htm
>
><caveat> The time server machine I'm running is seriously ancient
>(3.3R); things may have changed here in the mopdern age.</caveat>
>
>> Thanks
>
>De nada; hope it helps.
>
>
>--
>Chris Hill               chris@monochrome.org
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Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
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