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From: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net>
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Subject: Re: synchronize time
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On Tuesday 19 May 2009 15:08:35 Greg Larkin wrote:
> Mel Flynn wrote:
> > On Saturday 16 May 2009 18:02:13 Roy Stuivenberg wrote:
> >> Hi Mel,
> >>
> >> /etc/ntp.conf is empty.
> >
> > You'd need a server...Just one line is enough, f.e.:
> > echo 'server ntp.xs4all.nl' >/etc/ntp.conf
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have been using the ntp.org server pool successfully.  There are
> instructions for configuring your NTP server to connect to it here:
>
> http://www.pool.ntp.org/en/use.html

I know about these, but they suffer from the same bug as Slashdot comments and 
Wikipedia: everybody's an expert syndrome.
Also, Xs4all is a dutch provider, running FreeBSD since Windriver dumped BSDi.
-- 
Mel