From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752136AbXBEIX2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 03:23:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752139AbXBEIX2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 03:23:28 -0500 Received: from mail1.webmaster.com ([216.152.64.169]:2041 "EHLO mail1.webmaster.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752136AbXBEIX1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 03:23:27 -0500 From: "David Schwartz" To: Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" Subject: RE: ntp Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 00:22:42 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <00b201c748ca$3aa95cc0$2801a8c0@zhangxiliang> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 X-Authenticated-Sender: joelkatz@webmaster.com X-Spam-Processed: mail1.webmaster.com, Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:23:08 -0800 (not processed: message from trusted or authenticated source) X-MDRemoteIP: 206.171.168.138 X-Return-Path: davids@webmaster.com X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reply-To: davids@webmaster.com X-MDAV-Processed: mail1.webmaster.com, Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:23:09 -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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