From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Sep 23 14:16:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from arnold.neland.dk (mail.neland.dk [194.255.12.232]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83C7414E97 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 14:16:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arnold.neland.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA44281; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 23:15:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 23:15:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Leif Neland To: Doug Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xntpd as server for ntpdate In-Reply-To: <37E9BA32.876C0FC6@gorean.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Doug wrote: > Leif Neland wrote: > > > > We used to have xntpd on a linux box synched to the outside world, and > > many local machines did ntpdate to it. > > > > Now this machine has been upgraded to Fbsd, still running xntpd, but now > > ntpdate reports "no server suitable for synchronization found". > > > > What am I doing wrong? > > probably nothing. On the new freebsd machine run the command > 'ntptrace'. You'll probably see that the server sees itself as stratum > 16. Depending on the hardware it make take a few hours to a few days to > synchronize itself enough to start answering requests. Thanks; it works now. I'm used to things either works or doesn't. It didn't occur to me I'd have to wait for a long time before it worked. Leif To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message