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From: roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Strange ntpdate behaviour
Date: 24 Jul 1995 08:27:26 +0200
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In article <aak2.806144301@Ra.MsState.Edu>,
Atif Ahmad Khan <aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu> wrote:
> I am new to FreeBSD and tried the ntpdate command for the 
> first time a few minutes ago.  Well either I don't know of
> any servers or I am not using it right, even though I read 
> the man page 3 times.  Here is what I get :

You seem to use it fine. The debug output shows that at least ftp.cdrom.com
doesn't have a ntp server. Which version of FreeBSD is this ? 

You may try ntpdate canon.inria.fr to test. I know they have a ntp server.

[ Cc: to Atif ]
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