Hello Richard, On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 09:22:31PM +0100, Richard Tector wrote: > The fact that everyone has different ideas and suggestions with regards > to the contents of this file, and also that it's generally better to use > time servers from your local area (http://www.pool.ntp.org/en/use.html) > rather than the global pool, indicates to me that having a default > configuration is not a good idea.
The DNS servers for pool.ntp.org area already geographical distance aware: ;; ANSWER SECTION: 0.pool.ntp.org. 1089 IN A 119.148.81.6 0.pool.ntp.org. 1089 IN A 202.60.94.11 0.pool.ntp.org. 1089 IN A 202.89.184.139 0.pool.ntp.org. 1089 IN A 203.161.129.2 0.pool.ntp.org. 1089 IN A 203.82.209.217 ;; ANSWER SECTION: au.pool.ntp.org. 1200 IN A 119.148.81.6 au.pool.ntp.org. 1200 IN A 202.125.43.135 au.pool.ntp.org. 1200 IN A 202.60.94.11 au.pool.ntp.org. 1200 IN A 203.161.129.2 au.pool.ntp.org. 1200 IN A 203.82.209.217 I've only sorted them for easier comparing, I haven't changed them. But as you can see, they both give the same. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis Website: http://www.mavetju.org/ ed...@mavetju.org Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
