I would not consider an ntpdate query every 12 minutes to be abusive.
-- .-------------------------------------. ( Biggest security gap -- an open mouth ) `-------------------------------------' -- Paul-Andrew Joseph Miseiko On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, J Robinson wrote:
OK, So maybe I know someone who is one of these ntp server abusers. I don't know. I have the following line as a crontab in several machines: */12 * * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s timeserver1 timeserver2 timeserver3 timeserver4 the timeservers in question are geographically among the closest I could find, but I didn't measure distances with traceroute. I (probably mistakenly) assumed that running ntpdate periodically would put less load on my servers than using ntpd, and I also assumed that it wouldn't put undue load on the ntp servers either. Is these assumptions wrong? (I know about the weaknesses of not 'drifting' the time towards accuracy) Thanks jrobinson __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
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