On 11/17/05, Bob Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/16/05, dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 17:15:24 +0200 > > Ivailo Tanusheff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Why you need to do this? > > > Your system is not fully operationl in the time you try to run > > > ntpdate. Just edit your /etc/ntp.conf to connect to some time > > > servers. Per example mine is: > > > > [cut very nice example] > > > > Thank you. I > > You are probably right. I'll get rid of ntpdate in rc.conf. > > I have two timeservers at the moment. I will look for some more in the > > Netherlands. Yours are to far away ;-) > > The easy way to find public NTP servers is to use the public pool, > which gives you a random list of servers each time you do a DNS lookup > on it. You can ask for the pool for a specific continent or country > (when they exist) as well. More info about this is at > > http://www.pool.ntp.org/use.html > > but the short answer is to specify three servers as: > > server 0.nl.pool.ntp.org > server 1.nl.pool.ntp.org > server 2.nl.pool.ntp.org > > Which will give you three different randomly selected public servers > in the Netherlands (actually it gives you three lists, but ntpd will > use the first one from each list). > > Info about availability of participating servers in specific regions > is at http://www.pool.ntp.org/zone
Leading numbers are not necessary in most cases. I use: server europe.pool.ntp.org server europe.pool.ntp.org server europe.pool.ntp.org That selects 3 random servers from the whole europe pool. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"