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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: rdate for FreeBSD
Date: 11 May 1997 07:12:44 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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andreas@marvin.RoBIN.de (Andreas Lohr) wrote:

> Here the server's /etc/ntp.conf
> 
> server 127.127.1.1 prefer
> broadcast my-network ttl 16
> driftfile /etc/ntp.drift
> 
> The IP address 127.127.1.1 refers to the local clock. The key is
> that you have to use the "prefer" keyword to convince xntpd to
> actually broadcast the local clock so that clients are able to
> synchronize to the server.

Ah!  *scratches head*

Would you please be so kind to submit this sort of knowledge to
faq@freebsd.org?

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)