Re: Time off by -5 hours

Florin Izvoranu <[email protected]> Sat, 5 Nov 2005 10:49:20 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.libtai
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> >
> > I just came across the OpenBSD setup of ntp - they use pool.ntp.org as
> > source. This gives a random set of 8 IP addresses of Stratum2 servers.
>
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>
>Still not found an answer to the five hour loss, but what was interesting was
>that when I updated our "clockctl" config file with an active NTP server
>(anyone have an enhanced version of this approach that allows for using a
>list of NTP servers so we can have some fallback?),

Hi 
I've used sometime ago netselect , this give you the fastest server from a 
list ex.:

netselect -s1 `dnsip pool.ntp.org` | awk '{print $2}'

http://www.worldvisions.ca/~apenwarr/netselect/


Florin