Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 20:22:34 -0600 From: jacks@sage-american.com To: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>, Joe & Fhe Barbish <barbish@a1poweruser.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ntpd as time server? Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20020112202234.01776628@mail.sage-american.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1020112204715.60670A-100000@localhost> References: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOEEFDCMAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>
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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 >** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin =================================================== Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com "My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; ....situation excellent! ....I shall attack!" =================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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