On 2011-12-15, unruh <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2011-12-15, Richard B. Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 12/15/2011 10:32 AM, Steve Kostecke wrote: >> >>> On 2011-12-15, Charles Elliott<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>>> has the authentication in place to allow it to be added on the >>>>> fly, the biggest hit to the time will be that from stopping and >>>>> starting ntpd, to change the configuration. >>>> >>>> So true! Are there simple instructions somewhere to allow one to >>>> setup NTPD so that ntpq.exe or ntpdc.exe can be used to change the >>>> configuration on the fly, or can someone just post a few lines here >>>> to tell how to do it? >>> >>> There is no "hit" involved in a warm restart of a stable ntpd. >>> >>> Anyone claiming otherwise is spreading FUD. >> >> Is this something relatively new?
Not in my experience. >> ISTR that it still took about thirty minutes to get a reasonable >> facsimile of the correct time even when restarting with a good drift >> file. Perhaps if you're chasing microseconds, but not for the overwhelming majority of real world applications. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
