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Date:      Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:09:59 -0400
From:      Jon Radel <jon@radel.com>
To:        kenneth hatteland <kenneth.hatteland@kleppnett.no>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: using own ntp server
Message-ID:  <4AD249A7.7070505@radel.com>
In-Reply-To: <4AD244EE.9090505@kleppnett.no>
References:  <4AD244EE.9090505@kleppnett.no>

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kenneth hatteland wrote:
> 
> If I have understand ntp right it is possible to hook up my machines to 
> the machine running the ntp server. nevertheless I am not able to find 
> anywhere helping me with configuring these machines to connect to my 
> server and I am still not bright enough to figure out the syntax myself. 
> Does anyone know about a web page or anything that my Googling have 
> missed ? Or perhaps  I have gailed to grasp nto correct, and all 
> machines must be configured like the handbook says to connect to 
> external machines ?

Leaving aside two areas which could cover a multitude of complications 
should you pursue them, namely

1)  You start setting various security settings and make your ntp server 
effectively unreachable, or

2)  the ability of your local server to multicast time data,

your local ntp server should look like any other ntp server to which you 
have access (other than for less latency and jitter should your network 
be "normal").

Put

server IP_OR_FQDN_OF_LOCAL_NTP_SERVER_HERE

in the ntp.conf of your client machines and see what happens.  The 
"peers" query from the ntpq program should let you know if you have 
success or have somehow locked yourself out / blocked access.

Feel free to give us specifics of what you're doing if this doesn't work.

BTW, the above assumes that you mean setting up your various local 
machines to all use ntpd, but not all query outside machines.  If this 
isn't it, you're going to have to tell us what you mean by "hook up my 
machines to the machine running the ntp server."

-- 

--Jon Radel
jon@radel.com

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