On Tuesday 21 September 2004 01:38, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote:
On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 10:18:53PM -0700, Mike McMullen wrote:
Hi All,
I am trying to get ntp to sync with an ntp server without much luck on FC2.
I have the following servers defined in /etc/ntp.conf
server time.nist.gov prefer server ns.arc.nasa.gov prefer server tick.usno.navy.mil prefer
It seems nifty to try and sync to such famous quality sites but they are busy and overloaded. You can get better time from other places simply because cliend load is less.
It is better to select a modest set of tier 2 sites that are published at the ntp.org home page
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.html http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/clock2b.html
I found that it is good to build a list of ten then comment out all but three.
I don't recall where I got it from, but I have a script that chooses 4 from a random list of about 38 servers. If nothing else, the random choice should reduce the average load on any one if everyone used such a scheme. But this was a nice link, I'm going to remove tick and tock because they time out quite often, and add some from the above stratum 2 list.
There is an interesting project, pool.ntp. Read about it. I recommend that you comment out your servers from the .gov and .mil and add these.
# http://www.pool.ntp.org/ server pool.ntp.org server pool.ntp.org server pool.ntp.org
The abuse of famous public time reference sites is causing changes and many requiring the exchange of passwd/keys.
I've wondered how long they can keep it up.
If you have friendly administrators at near by companies you should exchange services, keys and contact information.
Ask your ISP for a ntp reference list. This is a service that all ISP's should be providing (IMO).
Verizon hasn't volunteered that they have one or more such servers. For me, that would be very nice.
-- T o m M i t c h e l l In the USA, vote informed, second Tuesday Nov 2004.
Amen