time.nist.gov also happens to be one of the two choices in windows of a time server so i personally make sure i dont use time.nist.gov Dennis On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 15:46, Tommy McNeely wrote: > I don't think they are being "intentional" as it is in the drop down > field of redhat-config-time as the "top" choice :) .. that is the one I > would pick (and did) till I replaced my old ntp.conf from 7.x > > Tommy > > On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 22:42, James Ralston wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Justin Johnson wrote: > > > After a new install, my computer fails to sync to the ntpd server > > > (time.nist.gov). After booting up, if I configure it via gnome, it > > > syncs fine and corrects my time, but after rebooting it errors upon > > > sync again. > > > > This is unrelated to your question, but: > > > > Please keep in mind that time.nist.gov is a stratum 1 server. You > > should only configure a machine to use time.nist.gov if that machine > > is going to be a stratum 2 server, and will provide NTP service to 100 > > clients or more. > > > > These guidelines are covered in the "Public NTP Time Servers Rules of > > Engagement": > > > > http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.html > > > > (If you know all this and are setting up a stratum 2 server for your > > site, then I apologize; it's just that your message gave me the > > impression that you might be an end user who was being unintentionally > > antisocial by using a stratum 1 server solely for your own PC.) > > > > -- > > James Ralston, Information Technology > > Software Engineering Institute > > Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA > > > > > > > > -- > > Psyche-list mailing list > > Psyche-list@redhat.com > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list > -- Dennis Gilmore <dennis@dgilmore.net>
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