Re: [gentoo-user] Peer review of ntp.conf file
Jeremy Olexa wrote: Teresa and Dale wrote: That's the whole thing. There is a command that I used that picked out the three servers that has the fastest ping times but I can't remember what it is. It's in the ofrums somewhere but I can't find it. Dale :-) :-) % eix -e netselect * net-analyzer/netselect Available versions: 0.3-r1 Installed: 0.3-r1 Homepage:http://www.worldvisions.ca/~apenwarr/netselect/ Description: Ultrafast implementation of ping. -- Jeremy Olexa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Office: EE/CS 1-201 CS/IT Systems Staff University of Minnesota That was it. This is the command: netselect -s 3 pool.ntp.org That should work. It did on mine. Thanks for pushng my brain along. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Peer review of ntp.conf file
John J. Foster wrote: Good evening, After having some recent issues with ntpd (which I'm not certain are resolved), I decided to take a close look at my /etc/ntp.conf file. Below are the _only_ lines in /etc/ntp.conf that are not commented out. restrict 127.0.0.1 nomodify driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift logfile /var/log/ntp.log server 0.us.pool.ntp.org server 1.us.pool.ntp.org server 2.us.pool.ntp.org Researching this subject leads me to believe this is one of the more difficult subjects to get a good grasp of what is actually taking place behind the scenes. There appears to be a _lot_ of variables involved that _could_ have a major impact on operations. This workstation in the only linux box on this network, and I would like to be able to serve time to 5 XP boxes if possible. What I'm asking for here is 2 things: 1:) Additions and/or changes to ntp.conf, along with the rationale for them. 2:) A good laymans explanation (or link to) proper ntp configuration and usage. Thanks, festus This is my conf file: # generated automatically by net-scripts restrict default noquery notrust nomodify restrict 127.0.0.1 driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift restrict 65.83.241.181 nomodify notrap noquery server 65.83.241.181 restrict 67.32.118.46 nomodify notrap noquery server 67.32.118.46 That's the whole thing. There is a command that I used that picked out the three servers that has the fastest ping times but I can't remember what it is. It's in the ofrums somewhere but I can't find it. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Peer review of ntp.conf file
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Teresa and Dale wrote: That's the whole thing. There is a command that I used that picked out the three servers that has the fastest ping times but I can't remember what it is. It's in the ofrums somewhere but I can't find it. Dale :-) :-) % eix -e netselect * net-analyzer/netselect Available versions: 0.3-r1 Installed: 0.3-r1 Homepage:http://www.worldvisions.ca/~apenwarr/netselect/ Description: Ultrafast implementation of ping. - -- Jeremy Olexa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Office: EE/CS 1-201 CS/IT Systems Staff University of Minnesota -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEjj55FN7pD9kMi/URApZSAJsGGXJy1jft49AiGOTOlRZaiKu66wCfaDWg waC0ppgkxoXGA/f/C6ifmDc= =b6yf -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
