Major Clock Drift

[jjohnson at sunrise-linux.com (miah)]

uhoh top post.

Not to mention, you could add a firewall rule via iptables or ipchains
to block incoming connections out port 123.

-miah

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 04:53:54PM -0400, Richard Chonak wrote:
> Josh Pollak wrote:
> I think ntp.conf can include directives to make the server daemon (ntpd) 
> ignore requests from other machines, so it is possible to run it and be 
> confident about its safety.
> 
> For your purposes, though, it's probably easier to just run ntpdate in a 
> cron job once an hour or a few times/day.  That'll keep your machine's time 
> consistent enough for practical use.
> 
> --RC