On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 20:20, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > > The first place to look for time servers is your ISP. ISPs often run > > time service on their nameservers. Try them. > > I tried my ISP first. When I sent tech support an email asking > about the NTP servers, they sent me instructions on how to setup > news access. I had to explicitly spell network time protocol. > Yup, they are very clueful.
Try this: traceroute ntp.<yourisp> I was pleasantly surprised to find that my ISP has one at ntp.cox.net. P.S. - "mtr" is much better than traceroute. $ apt-cache show mtr Package: mtr Priority: extra Section: net Installed-Size: 152 Maintainer: Robert Woodcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 0.54-1 Replaces: mtr-tiny Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1), libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0), libgtk1.2 (>= 1.2.10-4), libncurses5 (>= 5.3.20021109-1), xlibs (>> 4.1.0) Conflicts: suidmanager (<< 0.50), mtr-tiny Filename: pool/main/m/mtr/mtr_0.54-1_i386.deb Size: 42098 MD5sum: 76bf4c099a4fd45aaa27d13711ad1f41 Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool mtr combines the functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool. . As mtr starts, it investigates the network connection between the host mtr runs on and a user-specified destination host. After it determines the address of each network hop between the machines, it sends a sequence ICMP ECHO requests to each one to determine the quality of the link to each machine. As it does this, it prints running statistics about each machine. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Those who would give up essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither Liberty nor safety." or something like that Ben Franklin, maybe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]