In article <slrneviold.2uu2.bd@xxxxxxxxxx>, bd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
> [H]omer wrote:
>> IIRC Microsoft use some proprietary "standard" for NTP that breaks
>> compatibility with proper NTP servers, so (again IIRC) Windows is set to
>> poll something like "time.microsoft.com", but if you change it to one of
>> the standard pool servers it won't work.
> Nonsense. I have a FreeBSD machine set up as a "proper" time server (ntpd)
> for my local lan (it is synchronized with several Internet time servers),
> and none of my XP machines (including 64bit) have any trouble syncing with
> it. Same with all the XP boxen at my work place.
>
> HTH
As I said (IIRC) this was just from memory. As it turns out, this was/is
a problem with Windows NTP *servers*, not clients:
http://lists.ntp.isc.org/pipermail/questions/2006-April/009839.html
HTHT.
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