Internet screwed up?

[Bruce Marshall]

On Wednesday 05 May 2004 12:30 am, Shawn Tayler wrote:
> This brings up a question.  I have been struggling with netdate.  It has a
> tendency to just hang waiting for a response from some time servers, never
> seeming to time out.  I also have heard it is deprecated.  Is there a
> viable, commandline alternative?  NTPD is a bugger to get setup, at least
> the times I have tried I have given up...
>
> Shawn
>


Here are all the non-comment lines in my  /etc/ntp.conf  file.

Give it a try.   I've never found it to be hard at all to get it going.


controlkey 15
driftfile /etc/ntp.drift        # path for drift file
fudge  127.127.1.0 stratum 10   # LCL is unsynchronized
keys /etc/ntp.keys
logfile   /var/log/ntp          # alternate log file
requestkey 15
server ntp-1.cso.uiuc.edu     prefer
server ntp-2.mcs.anl.gov stratum 1
server tick.usno.navy.mil
server time-b.nist.gov
server clock.via.net stratum 1
server clock.isc.org stratum 1
server tick.gpsclock.com stratum 1
statsdir /var/ntpstats
trustedkey 3 4 5 6 14

















> On Tue, 04 May 2004 18:01:42 -0700 "Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org>
>
> exclaimed:
> > On 05/04/04 17:47, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > > I am having trouble contacting time servers. Is this just
> > > me or are others experiencing odd connection problems?
> >
> > clock-1.cs.cmu.edu works for me
> >
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