Brian Utterback wrote: >Here is what I propose in the V4 code: > >In V4, ntpdate is no longer used. Instead, the NTP has a new mode >that is used only on the first synchronization. It goes into a >super fast mode that gets an offset to within a second in about >5 seconds instead of the 5 minutes previously needed. It will then >correct this offset, regardless of the magnitude, just as ntpdate >does now. It will do this just once, afterward imposing a 20 minute >maximum offset. > > ...
(This isn't OpenSolaris specific....) Something that I've noticed the NTP daemon cannot do is deal with clocks that just won't align. The worst culprit that I have run into is running anything inside of vmware workstation, where the best solution I've found is to run ntpdate every 10 or so minutes. Is there any hope that NTPv4 will be better? Darren
