Steve Kostecke wrote: > On 2006-06-06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is what I consider a minimal NTP.CONF: > > > > server x.x.x.x maxpoll 6 > > ntpd automatically manages the poll period based upon a number of > factors. Under ideal conditions the poll period will increase to 1024 > seconds (or 17.067 minutes). > > Forcing ntpd to poll someone elses' time server every 64 seconds is > considered abusive.
He was talking about use on the local LAN, in which case, polling frequency is a non-issue. > > > driftfile /etc/ntp.drift > > enable auth I actually got burned by this. I had someone set up a fake stratum 1 server with a "peer" statement in their configuration and fed me bad time. I specify it anyway just to be safe. > > Authentication is enabled by default (at least for ntp 4.2.x). > > > That simple configuration is all you really need in almost > > all cases. > > Your sample configuration is a _very_ bad example. Fine, please post what you consider to be a minimal configuration. > > -- > Steve Kostecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > NTP Public Services Project - http://ntp.isc.org/ - Mooron _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
