From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 19 8: 1: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cx952600-a.fed1.sdca.home.com (cx952600-a.fed1.sdca.home.com [24.4.90.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AC4D14D42 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 08:01:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from snoonan@cx952600-a.fed1.sdca.home.com) Received: from localhost (snoonan@localhost) by cx952600-a.fed1.sdca.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA02756; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 08:01:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from snoonan@cx952600-a.fed1.sdca.home.com) Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 08:01:03 -0800 (PST) From: Sean Noonan To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: noonans@home.com Subject: time sync problem--ntpdate AND xntpd?? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message