N. Thomas said: > Why don't you just run ntpd on the one machine that talks to the higher > stratum servers and use ntpdate for your internal network?
this is infact, what I do[1] :) sorry if I wasn't clear. I run ntpd on 1 machine(sometimes 1 machine per network). This syncs to some external source, and ntpdate runs on all the "other" machines which sync to this one local system. But I really only run ntpd on this machine so I can sync other machines to it. > Yes it works for you, but think about the admin running the time servers > that your box connects to. Would this solution be acceptable to them? Can > you imagine 100 if people did the same thing? As above, only 1 system sync's to an external server, and it is a .gov server, time.nist.gov or something. Since it's a government server, run possibly by at least a couple fractions of a cent from my tax dollars I think I have a right to sync against it, they can always block me if they want though. I used to sync against other servers, theres a list of them somewhere, but the list seemed to change a lot and even with multiple servers in the list sometimes after 4-6 months all of those servers were down/not responding anymore. I think the .gov one won't go away. nate [1] http://bb.aphroland.org/bb/html/redhat.aphroland.org.ntpd.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]