Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 08:37:02 -0800 From: Graeme Tait <graeme@echidna.com> To: Studded <Studded@gorean.org>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: info@boatbooks.com Subject: Re: Time calibration ? Message-ID: <363353AE.2772@echidna.com> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96.981024182211.363c-100000@ds9.dreamhaven.org> <3632EBDA.FD5F1529@gorean.org>
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Studded wrote: > For instance, Bryce could synch ds9 and voyager as peers, while > synching each to a stratum 2 server outside of his network. It's > generally considered rude for an "average user" to synch to a stratum 1 > server without permission. It's also essentially unecessary, as a good > stratum 2 server will provide more accuracy than any of us will ever > need. That's my question - what does accurate time matter for in a typical network, and how accurate is good enough? I ask because I'm involved in setting up a web/mail/ftp server, and was wondering whether to use NTP. I notice quite a few Internet hosts do not maintain accurate time, and are evidently just running on their internal clocks, being perhaps a few minutes in error. -- Graeme Tait - Echidna To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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