Proper Method of Time Sync?
Brock, Anthony - NET
Anthony.Brock at oregonstate.edu
Fri Apr 14 16:36:11 UTC 2006
At 11:40 AM 4/14/2006, Jonathan Horne wrote:
>i have read about 2 methods to sync the time on a freebsd box.
>...i have a workstation and a server, which i originally did method
>1 on, but soon enough, time drifted quite a bit. so i switched it
>to the 2nd method, and they appear to be sync'd perfectly. a third
>box i set up, i did only method 2, and this one did not stay synced
>at all. after i manually ran 'ntpdate -v -b us.pool.ntp.org', this
>box straightend up.
Also, you should consider using one of the NTP server pools instead of
hard-coding one. This gives you one of several low-stratum servers each
time you boot and distributes the load for the time servers:
server pool.ntp.org
If you're in the US, you could a regional server with:
server us.pool.ntp.org
In the UK:
server uk.pool.ntp.org
Tony
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