Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Friday 16 December 2005 06:40 pm, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
You can answer all your questions and get a better understanding of the function of the ntp daemon if you would spend a few minutes reading the beginning of the voluminous documentation available for ntp. Also there are *many* faq's in existance. Carlos Robinson has written a good one. *You* need to do this because your questions show that you know *very* little of the function of ntp. --
My thoughts exactly.... and the reason that SuSE doesn't turn it on by default is because it *does* put a load on all of the time servers (especially by people who don't know how to operate NTPD) and you are *supposed* to ask permission or at least notify the owner of a time server that you are going to access it.
Whether or not you ask permission, depends on what the server wants. Some expect you to ask, some don't. Check the list and see what the policy is. http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Servers/WebHome