Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 09:40:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Help setting up NTP Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1000410092502.16462A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
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With the help I received from this list, I began to set up NTP for the
first time. The server seems OK now (the peers command in ntpdc utility
does show something as described on a NTP web page) and I let it broadcast
messages over the local network by using the following line in
/etc/ntp.conf:
broadcast x.x.x.255
Now on machine x.x.x.143 on the same subnet, I run:
# ntpd -b
# ntpdc
ntpdc> peers
***Server reports data not found
(while for a while)
ntpdc> peers
***Server reports data not found
What happened? I guess since the server broadcasts packets periodically,
I have to wait a longer while. I try to use broadcast (in ntpdc) on the
local server to force it broadcast a message immediately but it asks me
for keyid.
The /etc/ntp.conf used by local NTP server is:
server 127.127.1.0
fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10
broadcast x.x.x.255
dirftfile /dev/ntp.drift
I decide to use ntpdate to synchronize with a remote time server from time
to time. At all other times, I plan to synchronize to the local server's
clock (like an isolated network).
Any help is appreciated.
-Zhihui
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