On Oct 29, 2010, at 9:07 AM, Richard B. Gilbert wrote: On 10/29/2010 2:46 AM, David J Taylor wrote: >>> I had much better luck with the ntp documentation that comes with >>> FreeBSD: >>> >>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ntp.conf&sektion=5 >> [] >>> -- >>> Florin Andrei >>> http://florin.myip.org/ >> >> Thanks for the pointer, Florin. I'll bookmark that! It looks very >> comprehensive, and yet not a single example of a working minimum >> ntp.conf file is given. >> >> Cheers, >> David > > Its not rocket science! > > server time.mumble.com > server teaparty.org > server .... > server .... > > > Select four, five, or seven public NTP servers (or private servers to which > you have access) and list them in your ntp.conf file in the format > illustrated above. Ideally, the servers should be near to you in "net > space"; e.g. they should have short round trip times.
Agreed. The simplest working config has a single server line, ie: server pool.ntp.org ...but setting up at least four will give better redundancy and falseticker detection, ie: server 0.pool.ntp.org server 1.pool.ntp.org server 2.pool.ntp.org server 3.pool.ntp.org ...or whatever vendor zone might be appropriate. Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
