[NTLUG:Discuss] Time Sync Server

Brian brian-sender-67b5e0 at pongonova.net
Tue Oct 15 12:42:47 CDT 2002


Steve--

Are you on a cable modem or DSL?  Often the upstream router/switch has
a perfectly operational ntp port...keeps traffic down on the net as
well.  Use ntptrace to find out.

I have AT&T Cable and use the first router that appears when I do a
traceroute.

  --Brian

On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 06:52:22AM -0500, Stephen Davidson wrote:
> Ok,
> so what are some servers to use?  I tried going to "Time Central", but 
> currently all the first & second tier servers listed seem to be either 
> inoperative (only a few), or private access for large nets (which I am not). 
> And of course the few that do seem to be available to the general public are 
> the ones that are inoperative!
> 
> -Steve
> 
> Michael Patrick wrote:
> 
> >2 2 * * */3 /usr/sbin/ntptimeset -s -S 2 -V 2 -v
> >
> >is what I have in root's crontab to periodically update the time.  
> >
> >>From this package:
> >
> >[michael at redoctober michael]$ rpm -qa | grep "ntp"
> >ntp-4.1.0-4
> >[michael at redoctober michael]
> >
> >Michael
> >
> >On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 09:18:46PM -0500, Patrick Parks wrote:
> >
> >>Is there a server and software or maybe something built-in to Linux to
> >>contact a time server to keep the time synced? Thanks
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