[ntp:questions] Re: NTP, Mac OS X & Cisco 837

viz viz at REMOVEBLOCK.pacific.net.au
Wed Apr 13 02:04:24 UTC 2005




On 13/4/05 3:34 AM, in article 870o51de9734hu62ua88lq5kamdvgb48an at 4ax.com,
"Brian Inglis" <Brian.Inglis at SystematicSW.Invalid> wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 20:10:21 +1000 in comp.protocols.time.ntp, viz
> <viz at REMOVEBLOCK.pacific.net.au> wrote:
> 
>> Description: Newbie (to NTP) wanting to set up NTP on a Mac G5, and to have
>> it act as a broadcast server for a Cisco 837 router running SNTP. Mac ver
>> 10.3.8; NTP ver 4.1.1, Cisco 837 ver 12.3(2)XC2
>> 
>> Problem: Cannot get my Mac to synch with Sydney located timeservers
>> 130.155.98.13 or 130.155.98.1
> 
> Check out servers at:
> http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Servers/WebHome
> 
> This seems to be the only public access secondary server in Sydney:
> http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Servers/NtpTpgComAu
> there's another in Canberra:
> http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Servers/AnimalGoldwebComAu
> and you should contact the admins of these sites before use;
> and there's also a public access pool server (currently in Melbourne):
> au.pool.ntp.org

Hmmm might have to use the Melbourne one... I thought that there were
geographical (distance) issues with ntp servers? The longer the distance the
less accuracy?

/viz




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