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I'm wanting to set up an NTP client on my linux machine at home. I don't want it serving the other machines on my network necessarily, but I do want it updating via some trusted machine on the internet. Here are the questions I have:
1) Is the nptd what I'm looking for in terms of a client?
2) Where can I get an IP of a machine that I can trust for a good time update?
Ideally, traceroute to a few and use the one with the fewest hops/fastest response time. ntpd will compensate for the time delays but being closer won't hurt.
Last edited by david_ross; 11-29-2004 at 03:39 PM.
My server is one of the pool servers. Use ntpd. Check whether you have a regional pool eg the one in the uk is uk.pool.ntp.org which you will findhere . Then setup your ntp.conf with three lines;
server uk.pool.ntp.org
server uk.pool.ntp.org
server uk.pool.ntp.org
This ensures that ntp will sync with the most reliable of the 3 and will ensure that you at least get a response when one of them is not available. If you do not intend running an ntp server PLEASE use pool.ntp.org. The people running the stratum 1 servers are starting to get really hacked off with the millions of requests they are getting every second and many are threatening to withdraw these public services. If anyone reading this has a stable and static ip with adsl and they have a server running 24/7 please look to donate some bandwidth to ntp and assist a very necessary service to most internet servers. My ntp server gets about 4-6kbits/s of requests which is quite small. If you are up for this then you can find how to at pool.ntp.org
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