nsayer@uop.edu (Nick Sayer) (10/09/90)
Hi. I just posted my GC-1000 clock reader to comp.sources.misc, and thought I was doing well. Then I got told about this group and the various ntp clock schemes and am quite impressed. I just installed xntpd here at uop. Looks nice. In the meantime, quack still runs my little program to read from the GC-1000. Question 1: Can I configure xntpd to use this program for local timekeeping, and so serve outside users through xntpd? Intuition says to keep running my program via cron as usual, then include "server 127.127.1.0" in /etc/ntp.conf. Is this OK? Question 2: Would there be any particular purpose served in moving my clock over to one of the systems on our internet-linked network? There already seem to be a bunch of accurate servers -- I picked a list at random and 12 out of 16 of them show up in my peer list at stratum 1. -- Nick Sayer | Disclaimer: N6QQQ | "Just because you're reading my post doesn't mrapple@quack.sac.ca.us | mean we're gonna take long showers together." 209-952-5347 (Telebit) | -- Gunnery Sgt. Thomas Highway
Mills@udel.edu (10/10/90)
Nick, Having run a Heath WWV clock myself for some years I have concluded it would be a disservice to the Internet community to provide time from such a beast to my friends. If you will carefully examine the accuracy and reliability of the thing, you will discover that in almost all cases you can achieve better time by junking the thing and listening to your Internet friends with better clocks. If you are interested and have the patience to wade through reams of tabular and graphical data I have on the things, I would be glad to supply them. Dave