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Date:      Wed, 19 Jan 2000 08:01:03 -0800 (PST)
From:      Sean Noonan <snoonan@cx952600-a.fed1.sdca.home.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        noonans@home.com
Subject:   time sync problem--ntpdate AND xntpd??
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001190752470.2731-100000@cx952600-a.fed1.sdca.home.com>

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Dear list:

I have a home RFC1918 net linked to the world via a FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE
gateway/NAT/IPFW box.  I'm tired of my clocks being off by hours from each
other so I did some research and discovered NTP.

I found NTP clients for my Novell and M$ boxen.  I figured I'd use ntpdate
on my FreeBSD workstations.  I also figured I'd use ntpdate **AND** xntpd
on my gateway/NAT/IPFW box.  That way, I figured, my gateway/firewall box
would get the time from a reliable time source and then the rest of my
boxes would look to it for their time source.  Sounded good.

Until I read this in man ntpdate:  "Ntpdate will decline to set the date
if an NTP server (e.g. xntpd(8)) is running on the same host".

So, what should I do?  It didn't/doesn't make sense to me to have all of
my worksatations use internet bandwidth to check time; better to have one
check the time and the the rest get their time from it.

What am I missing, conceptually?  What are my alternatives?  Is their a
NTP proxy I could run on my firewall?

TIA,

-Sean Noonan
noonans@home.com




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