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From: nsayer@uop.edu (Nick Sayer)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.time.ntp
Subject: Well, what do you know...
Message-ID: <2711528a.2584@uop.uop.edu>
Date: 9 Oct 90 04:31:06 GMT
Organization: University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA [138.9.200.1]
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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.

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