[ntp:questions] Re: Initial Setting

David Schwartz davids at webmaster.com
Mon Apr 25 22:26:27 UTC 2005


"mgrd" <mgrd at gmx.net> wrote in message 
news:d4jqfj$sol$03$1 at news.t-online.com...

> To make it clear what I mean:
> - xntpd is configured to use out-server1, out-server2, out-server3 in
>   /etc/ntp.conf
> - I parse /etc/ntp.conf and give the three out-servers `netdate' as it's
>   servers
> Both amounts of servers are finite. All servers can be used as an
> "argument" for both xntpd and `netdate'
> So I still don't get the difference concerning the OPs issue.

    How will this help him if his NTP servers don't support the obsolete 
time protocol that 'netdate' uses? I'm also going to bet that he only has 
permission to query them using the NTP protocol.

    DS





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