--- a/components/ntp/Solaris/ntp.client Thu Jul 21 10:48:02 2011 -0700
+++ b/components/ntp/Solaris/ntp.client Wed Jul 27 08:20:39 2011 -0700
@@ -20,11 +20,11 @@
#
# Copyright (c) 2009, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
-# If you want to configure your client to listen for multicast, uncommnet
-# this line. This should only be used for casual time keeping, like keeping
+# If you do not want to configure your client to listen for multicast, comment
+# this line out. This should only be used for casual time keeping, like keeping
# a desktop system in sync.
-#multicastclient 224.0.1.1
+multicastclient 224.0.1.1
# To configure NTP servers, replace the server_name with either the IP address
# or hostname of the server you wish to use. If you just want to keep the time
@@ -32,7 +32,9 @@
# to a more accurate level, 3 or more is recommended. Do not choose 2, because
# 2 servers is an unstable configuration. By the same token 3 is only acceptable
# if all are always available, since when a single one reboots or otherwise
-# becomes unavailable, you have just 2.
+# becomes unavailable, you have just 2. The iburst keyword specifies that
+# multiple packets be sent at start-up to allow the system to more quickly
+# get the correct time at boot.
#
# For a list of Internet NTP servers see
# http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Servers/WebHome
@@ -45,7 +47,9 @@
#
# Many ISP's also provide NTP servers for use by their customers.
-server server_name iburst
+# server server_name1 iburst
+# server server_name2 iburst
+# server server_name3 iburst
# Always configure the drift file. It can take days for ntpd to completely
# stabilize and without the drift file, it has to start over on a reboot
@@ -63,25 +67,26 @@
# To track the events regarding the system clock, the protostats file can be useful
# as well.
+
#filegen protostats file protostats type day enable
# To see the current state of the crypto authentication protocols, enable the
# cryptostats file.
+
#filegen cryptostats file cryptostats type day enable
# The clockstats files are only useful if a hardware reference clock is
# configured. See the /etc/inet/ntp.server file for more information about
# that.
+
#filegen clockstats file clockstats type day enable
-# The sysstats and rawstats output might be useful in debugging.
+# The sysstats and rawstats output might be useful in debugging, but are
+# not important otherwise.
+
#filegen sysstats file sysstats type day enable
#filegen rawstats file rawstats type day enable
-# The timingstats file is probably not useful at all. It is designed for
-# perfomance debugging by the developers of NTP.
-#filegen timingstats file timingstats type day enable
-
# There are several types on authentication supported by NTP. The easiest
# to use is a set of passwords, called "keys". They should be stored
# the /etc/inet/ntp.keys file. Each key in the ntp.keys file can be
@@ -102,6 +107,3 @@
# The latest leap seconds file is always available at ftp://time.nist.gov/pub
#leapfile /etc/inet/ntp.leap
-
-
-