[PLUG] NTP oddity

[Paul Johnson]

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On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 01:02:45PM -0800, Steven Raymond wrote:
> Perhaps a dumb question, but why doesn't everyone run ntpd instead?  It
> keeps your clock accruate all the time, not just when a cron job runs, and
> uses something like only 1 udp packet per minute to do so.  

Better yet, use chrony.  It also figures out the skew so it can keep
the clock more accurate when it can't talk to the time servers.

> A google for "public ntp servers" turns up hundreds of stratum 2
> devices you can get time from.

Try using your ISP's DNS servers for NTP.  Many ISPs serve NTP on
their DNS servers these days.  Go for that, the time's not going to be
that far out.

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