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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: rdate for FreeBSD Date: 11 May 1997 07:12:44 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5l3rhc$al4@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5l29ec$3vj@marvin.robin.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40726 andreas@marvin.RoBIN.de (Andreas Lohr) wrote: > Here the server's /etc/ntp.conf > > server 127.127.1.1 prefer > broadcast my-network ttl 16 > driftfile /etc/ntp.drift > > The IP address 127.127.1.1 refers to the local clock. The key is > that you have to use the "prefer" keyword to convince xntpd to > actually broadcast the local clock so that clients are able to > synchronize to the server. Ah! *scratches head* Would you please be so kind to submit this sort of knowledge to faq@freebsd.org? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)