NTPD unable to adjust local clock

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Wed Apr 6 12:50:31 PDT 2005


On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 03:46:08PM -0400, Christopher Weimann wrote:
> On 04/06/2005-07:52PM, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > 
> > Yes, I'm very well aware of it. I'm reading the original NTP papers and
> > will do some matth myself. Once we have done that, I'd like to add the
> > ability to record the frequency in a file, similiar to what DJB's program
> > [what ever it was named] does. 
> 
> http://cr.yp.to/clockspeed.html ?
> 
> Isn't this a good alternative to ntp anyway?

Yes and no. It works fine for system with a stable clock skew, but most
system don't have temperature compensated clocks anymore [just like Matt
said].

Joerg





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