From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 5 03:13:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA07987 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 May 1996 03:13:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gate.leissner.se (gate.leissner.se [193.45.192.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA07980 for ; Sun, 5 May 1996 03:13:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from leissner.se (nuucp@localhost) by gate.leissner.se (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id MAA00790 for freefall.freebsd.org!questions; Sun, 5 May 1996 12:14:45 +0200 Subject: Re: xntpd server To: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 12:12:18 +0200 (SST) From: Peter Olsson Cc: archie@whistle.com In-Reply-To: <199605042151.OAA01575@freefall.freebsd.org> from "owner-questions-digest@freefall.freebsd.org" at May 4, 96 02:51:06 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL11] Content-Type: text Message-ID: <9605051212.aa14960@lda.leissner.se> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello! Archie Cobbs wrote: > How does one get xntpd running on a server so that local machines > can use it for time synchronization (clients using ntpdate)? > > Even though xntpd is running and there are some packets exchanged > (detected with EtherNet sniffer), the ntpdate command on the client > yeilds "no suitable servers for synchronization found" ... > > I'd like to have the server synchronizing from some "unspecified" > source, for now external Internet servers but in the future possibly > a radio. So in either case, the server would service requests using > whatever the system time was. What a coincidence! Yesterday I was assigned the task of coordinating time among our freebsd-servers. I started playing with xntpd and ntpdate. I got "no suitable servers ..." every time, so I looked in the code. Seems that ntpdate (and probably also xntpd) requires a server with stratum less than 16 to synchronize time with that server. The problem is that all our freebsd-servers have stratum=16. So, how do I either lower a servers local stratum or make the programs accept servers with stratum=16? Seems to me that this requirement is there for a reason, that's why I'd rather not hack the code if I can avoid it. Peter Olsson pol@leissner.se