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Brian Edmonds (brian@gweep.bc.ca)
20 Oct 1998 10:40:23 -0700
Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca> writes:
> There's no reason you can't run xntpd without a permanant connection,
> either.
True, but when I'm doing dialup I use diald for on-demand dialing, so
xntpd will be bringing the link up all the time without some fiddly
configuring. It's much easier in that case just to put in a cron job to
do a time sync on the hour when my system will be dialing up anyways to
do a UUCP exchange. I've only got one phone line, so unless I'm online
actively working I try to arrange things so that it only goes on for
short, and well known periods.
With ADSL, I obviously don't care when it wants to be hitting the net,
so I just let xntpd do its thing. Yesterday I had 710 packets come in
through the NTP hole in my filters.
Brian.
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