From owner-freebsd-net Sun Oct 11 08:00:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA02460 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 08:00:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA02453 for ; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 08:00:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from fenja.ifi.uio.no (2602@fenja.ifi.uio.no [129.240.65.174]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id RAA22988; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 17:00:01 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by fenja.ifi.uio.no ; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 17:00:00 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Open Systems Networking Cc: Jim Cassata , FreeBSD Net Subject: Re: xntpd References: Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 11 Oct 1998 17:00:00 +0200 In-Reply-To: Open Systems Networking's message of "Sat, 10 Oct 1998 18:48:24 -0400 (EDT)" Message-ID: Lines: 33 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id IAA02454 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Open Systems Networking 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