[olug] Time

[PS]

Tim & Alethea Larson wrote:

> Brandon Lederer wrote:
>
>> My MythTV Box has     some clock drift.  Pretty important that the 
>> clock is correct.  How easy is it to set up NTPClient?  Anyone know 
>> of a howto?
>>  
>>
> I set up ntpd on my NetBSD box several months ago, and it was almost 
> dead simple.  Enabled it in one of the boot config files, set my ntp 
> servers in /etc/ntp.conf, started the service as root, and voila.  I 
> used three geographically distributed servers.  Google for "public ntp 
> servers" you can use.
>
> One thing I learned is that you only use unrestricted 2nd (not 1st) 
> tier ntp servers, and it's courteous to inform the owner of the ntp 
> servers you use that you are going to be using them.  OK that's more 
> than one thing.
>
>
> Tim
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Does your ntpd update over the internet or are you using a modem? If you 
are using a modem how did you configure ntpd?  Also,  you mentioned not 
to use 1st tier ntp servers, why not? Just learning.

Thanks,
Patrick