Date: 11 Oct 1998 17:00:00 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: Open Systems Networking <opsys@mail.webspan.net> Cc: Jim Cassata <jim@web-ex.com>, FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: xntpd Message-ID: <xzpn273qh3j.fsf@fenja.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Open Systems Networking's message of "Sat, 10 Oct 1998 18:48:24 -0400 (EDT)" References: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9810101843310.20889-100000@orion.webspan.net>
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Open Systems Networking <opsys@mail.webspan.net> writes: > On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Jim Cassata wrote: > > server 128.173.14.71 > Is 128.173.14.71 an actual time server? root@fixus-ipv6 ~# nslookup 128.173.14.71 Server: mimming.ifi.uio.no Address: 129.240.64.16 Name: black-ice.cc.vt.edu Address: 128.173.14.71 root@fixus-ipv6 ~# ntpdate 128.173.14.71 11 Oct 16:57:10 ntpdate: adjust time server 128.173.14.71 offset 0.005766 > > driftfile /etc/ntp.drift > Did you tell xntpd to use this file? Did you notice that he mentioned this was from his /etc/ntp.conf? > > and there is a writable driftfile that never gets written to. According to > > the complete FreeBSD book, the driftfile's presence in the conf file tells > > xntpd to get the time from the server, and it's absence tells it to get > > the time from listening to ntp broadcasts. > To get all your servers to sync to a common time you need to tell the main > xntpd server that gets its time from an atomic clock to broadcast time > notices to your lan. I think the option to xntpd is: broadcast lan-netmask Uh, no. Read the man page. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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