On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:02:43 -0700, gluino wrote: > Thanks all for the help. > > On Apr 12, 6:52 am, "Richard B. gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It's generally possible to find servers with delays less than twenty >> milliseconds. It should almost always be possible to find servers with >> delays less than 50 milliseconds. > > Maybe it's because I'm in South East Asia, I'll try to look around some > more. > Anyway, I'm happy with keeping my machines within say 1/4 seconds of UTC, > considering that for many years the the company network (including scores > of POS and DVR PCs) has been chugging along fine with just manual time > adjustments. > > So... Maarten suggests using a simple script to check on ntpq -p, I'm not > sure what to check for, will the asterisk always disappear after a > problem? > If so, I would just check for presence of the string: "*203.117.180.36" > (it's my government's public time server)
asia.pool.ntp.org. Several of the hosts in that are *real* servers (not someone's PC), and are much closer to Singapore. inetnum: 140.112.0.0 - 140.112.255.255 netname: TANET country: Taiwan inetnum: 152.118.0.0 - 152.118.255.255 netname: UINET country: Indonesia inetnum: 202.71.96.0 - 202.71.111.255 netname: EASTGATE country: Malaysia inetnum: 202.77.64.0 - 202.77.79.255 netname: GPNET-ID country: Indonesia inetnum: 202.184.0.0 - 202.185.255.255 netname: JARING-MY country: Malaysia inetnum: 218.111.0.0 - 218.111.255.255 netname: XDSLSTREAMYX country: Malaysia -- 2007/04/12:13:44:14UTC Slackware Linux 2.4.32 up 131 days, 2:19, 6 users, load average: 2.11, 2.22, 2.21 _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
