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document the "servers" keyword

OPENBSD_3_6
henning 20 years ago
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.\" $OpenBSD: ntpd.conf.5,v 1.4 2004/07/07 08:36:26 jmc Exp $
.\" $OpenBSD: ntpd.conf.5,v 1.5 2004/07/09 10:56:35 henning Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2003, 2004 Henning Brauer <henning@openbsd.org>
.\"
@ -34,11 +34,6 @@ The settings are as follows:
Specify a local IP address the
.Xr ntpd 8
daemon should listen on.
For example:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
listen on 127.0.0.1
.Ed
.Pp
It can appear multiple times:
.Xr ntpd 8
will listen on each given address.
@ -49,13 +44,37 @@ is given as an address,
will listen on all local addresses.
.Xr ntpd 8
does not listen on any address by default.
For example:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
listen on *
listen on 127.0.0.1
listen on ::1
.Ed
.It Ar server
Specify the IP address or the hostname of an NTP
server to syncronize to.
If the hostname resolves to multiple IPv4 and/or IPv6 adresses,
.Xr ntpd 8
uses the first address.
If it does not get a reply,
.Xr ntpd 8
retries with the next address and continues to do so unless a working address
is found.
For example:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
server 10.0.0.2
server pool.ntp.org
server ntp.example.org
.Ed
.It Ar servers
As with
.Ar server ,
specify the IP address or hostname of an ntp server to synchronize to.
Should the hostname resolve to multiple IP adresses,
.Xr ntpd 8
will try synchronize to all of them.
For example:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
servers pool.ntp.org
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