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Date:      Mon, 7 May 2007 19:16:26 -0500
From:      Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org>
To:        RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Time Synchronizing Between Two Servers
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On May 7, 2007, at 6:53 PM, RW wrote:

> I was questioning the need for a low-drift system clock on a machine
> that *is* running ntpd, not the need for ntpd.

Ah, sorry.

However, I was adding a somewhat pedantic point of distinguishing  
between "low drift" and "inconsistent drift".  High but consistent  
drift is better than low but inconsistent drift.

Anyway, jdow obviously knows much more about this than I do.  So I  
will defer to her.

Cheers,

-j


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Jeffrey Goldberg                        http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/




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