From my Fritzbox log: Apr 12 06:27:29 multid[360]: dns: 0.europe.pool.ntp.org: query Apr 12 06:27:30 multid[360]: dns: 0.europe.pool.ntp.org: 82.71.9.63 ttl=79 from 192.168.180.1. Apr 12 06:27:30 multid[360]: sending SNTP request to server 0.europe.pool.ntp.org (82.71.9.63) Apr 12 06:27:30 multid[360]: The NTP time is 12.4.2006 04:27:29.150000 UTC Apr 12 06:27:30 multid[360]: system time is 1.007000 seconds ahead Apr 12 06:27:30 multid[360]: adjusting time backward 1.007000 seconds Seems to do that every 8 hours. I could not find a config file. Compiled into "/sbin/multid" ? I guess similar devices like the maudit D-Link are much the same. Only that multid deamon seems to be AVM specific. If that NTP thing is from the non disclosed und unGPLed TI source then best forget about it. Replace it by some wellknown software that is known not to be nasty. Another router that is not compatible and not especially a good router - has an html interface where you can put it your favourite NTP server. I still wonder why I cannot configure the NTP server but at least it is not as nasty as the D-Link. Peter Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 10:01:10PM +0000, Edward B. DREGER <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net> wrote a message of 27 lines which said:
AS112-style NTP service, anyone? That would be cooperative and possibly even useful.
It already exists (Security warning: do not use it on strategic machine, there is no warranty that these servers are trustful):
Active server count on 2006-04-12 Africa 1 Asia 24 Europe 368 North America 223 Oceania 26 South America 7 Global 582 All Pool Servers 653
The pool.ntp.org project is a big virtual cluster of timeservers striving to provide reliable easy to use NTP service for millions of clients without putting a strain on the big popular timeservers.
Adrian von Bidder created this project after a discussion about resource consumption on the big timeservers, with the idea that for everyday use a DNS round robin would be good enough, and would allow spreading the load over many servers. The disadvantage is, of course, that you may occasionally get a bad server and that you usually won't get the server closest to you. The workarounds for this is respectively to make sure you configure at least three servers in your ntp.conf and to use the country zones (for example 0.us.pool.ntp.org) rather than the global zone (for example 0.pool.ntp.org). Read more on using the pool.
The pool is now enormously popular, being used by at least hundreds of thousands and maybe even millions of systems around the world.
The pool project is now being maintained by Ask Bjørn Hansen and a great group of contributors on the mailing lists.
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