[jgwest]

Dudes... I don't really care... I just want a way to synchronize my VPS clock with that of other, established, secure clocks... because DigitalOcean (okay, go ahead and downvote me) is not quite synched, and neither is Linode, and my server!!! Oh good Lord my server don't know the time at all! Dudes... just agree on something that I can install SIMPLY... 'cuz the infighting between ntp and openntp ain't nothing that I care to be involved with... JUST MAKE IT EASY!!!!

[atmosx]

What are you whining about? What DO, Linode, etc. Have to do with anything????

OpenNTPd is extremely easy to configure. The problem is that it's not the default choice while, apparently, it should be. Same goes with almost all OBSD-derivates (OpenSMTPd, OpenSSHd, OpenNTPd, etc.).

Here is the first guide at google: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OpenNTPD

Feel free to ask, if you feel that there's something exotic that needs to be done before getting OpenNTPd to work.

[geofft]

> What are you whining about? What DO, Linode, etc. Have to do with anything????

Well, there's a good argument to be made that your VPS provider should be running an accurate time daemon (whatever that might be), and you should just have paravirtualized access to the current time, instead of every VM being expected to run some form of ntpd on its own, and the hypervisor track scores of virtual clocks.

There's even a good argument to be made that running the NTP algorithm in a VM doesn't work: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/osdi10/tech/full_papers/...

[atmosx]

Oh I see. I didn't knew that, I just connected the NTPd daemons either to the default NTP server or to the ISPs/Provider's NTPd server. Hm, didn't knew that VM had such issues with time servers.

[xorcist]

It's also documented best practice, at least with VMware and Xen.