William Unruh <un...@invalid.ca> wrote: > On 2021-06-25, Jim Pennino <j...@gonzo.specsol.net> wrote: >> chris <chris-nos...@tridac.net> wrote: >>> On 06/25/21 04:08, Jim Pennino wrote: >>>> William Unruh<un...@invalid.ca> wrote: >>>> >>>> <snip old stuff> >>>> >>>>> I suspect it is the number of times that ntpd tries to contact the >>>>> server and fails rather than the time that is important. You could try >>>>> putting the server offline and then online again (I use chrony so do not >>>>> remember if ntpd has that option). >>>> >>>> No, it doesn't. >>>> >>> >>> You could use a one line cron script to restart every day, week, >>> whenever... >> >> Or for $14/machine I could use a USB GPS, my machine with PPS GPS, and a >> public server that does not request use of DNS. > > You could try specifying the server by IP rather than by name, so DNS is > not needed. Of course this rule out using pool, unless you put them in > by IP. DNS is just used to translate names to IP, so if you use IP, then > DNS is not needed.
Or for $14/machine I could use a USB GPS, my machine with PPS GPS, and A public server that does NOT request use of DNS which yields 3 sources of time without using a pool or DNS lookups. Or for $28/machine I could use 2 USB GPS receivers and my machine with PPS GPS, which also provides 3 sources of time without any network access at all. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
