On Thursday 02 September 2004 14:51, John Andersen wrote:
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 05:11 am, Gonda Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
I have read the info on ntpd several times and I think I understand the basics. I hope I have ntpd working on my dialup system with 9.1.
How long did you wait after starting ntpd to check these numbers?
It takes a while to sync you know. 5 to 10 minutes.
After a bit you will see an asterisk on one of the clock lines. That means its synced with that clock. From then on it will be dead on perfect. (for some definitions of perfect).
By the way, your machine will never sync if its clock is off by a LOT, so get it close before you start.
Your ISP should supply a strata 2 or 3 clock, and that is usually the one to use, but some ISPs dont do it, or let theirs get hopelessly out of sync. Generally its recommend you NOT use one of the strata 1 clocks because if everybody did, it would get overloaded. There are lists of clocks on the internet somewhere. Google will find them, or look here: http://www.ntp.org/ http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.html http://www.ntp.org/ntpfaq/NTP-a-faq.htm I leave my ISP out of the time question ;-). In a country where time is elastic I suspect that my ISP is no good time keeper. Have read the faqs and other info available but the hands on experience is something you do not easy find there.
Thanks for the help. Think that the connection via my dial up is sometimes overloaded. Must have been a big download or a big spam which took all of the connection bandwidth. Right now I get a star for darkstar.sanet and after a ten minutes I also got a plus sign in front of ns01.deu.edu.tr What does the plus mean? Just before I wanted to send this email my1.doubleukay also got a plus in front. 202.180.0.71 .STEP. 16 u - 128 0 0.000 0.000 4000.00 my1.doubleukay. 164.67.62.194 2 u 49 64 107 1022.56 -58.216 1.617 +ns01.deu.edu.tr 195.113.144.201 2 u 59 64 177 915.493 -0.621 13.994 *darkstar.sanet. 212.82.32.15 2 u 56 64 177 840.781 -17.948 40.706