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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!EU.net!Ireland.EU.net!Ireland.EU.net!not-for-mail From: nick@eunet.ie (Nick Hilliard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Synchronizing my FreeBSD machine to clock servers. Date: 7 Dec 1996 15:14:24 -0000 Organization: EUnet Ireland Network Operations Lines: 26 Message-ID: <58c1kg$5js@ezekiel.eunet.ie> References: <stanbE1tEtC.1EE@netcom.com> <5898u8$e8@boerdix.oh.sub.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ieunet.ie X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Berni Ernst (berni@act) said: : Get the sources of netdate and compile it on your BSD machines. I use : netdate on FreeBSD to get the correct time from a Linux machines with : a dcf77 atomic clock. : netdate is nice and easy and doesn not need the hard configuration like : xntpd. Netdate should be thrown away - it's inaccurate and has some weird bugs in it. I'm amazed that people still use it. XNTP is really much better and the configuration isn't even remotely difficult. All you need in your ntp.conf is: -- # NTP peering host peer hostname.accurate-clock.com # Drift file driftfile /etc/ntp.drift -- Then, just put xntpd in the background and you'll never need to worry about the time again, ever. Really, it's that easy. But for heaven's sake, get rid of netdate. :-| Nick