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[Sandwich Maker]

" From: Jeff Cole <jeff at flambe.org>
" 
" On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 06:45:32AM -0400, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
" > Bill Bradford wrote:
" > > On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 03:09:28AM -0400, Jeff Cole wrote:
" > >> All of our Suns (and Linux and AIX) at $work use ntpdate <timeserver>
" > >> called via cron. That seems to work every time.
" > > 
" > > Why that instead of running ntpd?
" > 
" > Indeed.  As far as I can tell, ntpd would be superior in nearly every 
" > regard.
" 
" It's one of those legacy things that just won't die (much like tinydns
" as our prod dns servers)
" 
" Suffice to say that the network is setup in such a way that the only way
" to sync via ntp is to sync via the closest firewall interace. The
" firewalls themelves sync via the Naval Observatory I think.

can you set the firewalls up to broadcast time over your network?  the
larger it is, the better that would be over ntpdate hits.
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