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From: nick@eunet.ie (Nick Hilliard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Synchronizing my FreeBSD machine to clock servers.
Date: 7 Dec 1996 15:14:24 -0000
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Berni Ernst (berni@act) said:
: Get the sources of netdate and compile it on your BSD machines. I use
: netdate on FreeBSD to get the correct time from a Linux machines with
: a dcf77 atomic clock.
: netdate is nice and easy and doesn not need the hard configuration like
: xntpd.

Netdate should be thrown away - it's inaccurate and has some weird bugs in
it.  I'm amazed that people still use it.  XNTP is really much better and
the configuration isn't even remotely difficult.  All you need in your
ntp.conf is:

--
# NTP peering host
peer hostname.accurate-clock.com

# Drift file
driftfile /etc/ntp.drift
--

Then, just put xntpd in the background and you'll never need to worry about
the time again, ever.  Really, it's that easy.

But for heaven's sake, get rid of netdate. :-|

Nick