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From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
To: <zhangxiliang@nanjing-fnst.com>
Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: ntp
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 00:22:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <MDEHLPKNGKAHNMBLJOLKGEAJBGAC.davids@webmaster.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00b201c748ca$3aa95cc0$2801a8c0@zhangxiliang>


> Hello.
> When I use the ntpd service, I see if I use the client attempt to connect
> the server repeat before the server is ready, the ntpd on server
> can not be
> ready all the times.
>
> Sometimes the waiting time maybe very long.

Sounds like NTP is the wrong tool for the job. NTP is specifically designed
to synchronize clocks with high accuracy to timing sources traceable to UTC.
It requires stable servers in order to do that. There are any number of
other time settings tools that don't try to actually synchronize clocks.

DS




  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-05  8:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-02  8:47 ntp zhangxiliang
2007-02-02  9:10 ` ntp Matti Aarnio
2007-02-05  2:06   ` ntp zhangxiliang
2007-02-05  8:22     ` David Schwartz [this message]
2007-02-04  7:59 ` ntp David Schwartz

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