Subject: Re: rc.d: time synchronization issues at boot time
To: None <rmk@rmkhome.com>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 03/21/2005 12:22:44
Rick Kelly wrote:

> Going back into the dim past, everywhere I've ever worked the consensus
> was to use hard-wired ip addresses and not FQDN in /etc/ntp.conf. Thus
> there are no DNS problems, and it is less likely that the system will
> connect to a bogus ntp server that is spoofing the FQDN.  [ ... ]

See my earlier comment in this thread about using the pool.ntp.org time
servers.  Hard-wiring IP addresses in this case wont work.

Simon.
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