Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 18:02:10 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Jim Cassata <jim@web-ex.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xntpd Message-ID: <199810102302.SAA29513@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Jim Cassata <jim@web-ex.com> of "Sat, 10 Oct 1998 17:49:51 CDT." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810101746290.14920-100000@Homer.Web-Ex.com>
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Jim Cassata writes:
>
> Is anyone using this or a better way to keep server clocks in sync?
> It doesn't seem to do anything, 4 servers all running xntpd with a
> /etc/ntp.conf (as per the man pages) as follows:
>
> server 128.173.14.71
> driftfile /etc/ntp.drift
>
> 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.
That's essentially what I have in my /etc/ntp.conf. The big difference
is that I list servers by name, not IP address as their actual IP
addresses tend to change. Also I list 4 servers.
If you are on a part time dialup link you should not start xntpd from
/etc/rc.conf, but manually (as root) during your first dialup.
What does "ntpq -c peers" say?
n4hhe: {681} ntpq -c peers
remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset disp
==============================================================================
130.199.128.184 130.199.112.138 3 - 39m 64 0 247.39 -1686.6 16000.0
fly.hiwaay.net 192.5.41.40 16 - 107m 64 0 164.61 -1691.2 16000.0
128.249.2.2 134.131.68.73 3 - 46m 64 0 229.23 -1680.7 16000.0
128.194.103.35 128.194.177.1 3 - 41m 64 0 238.59 -1701.1 16000.0
n4hhe: {682} ls -l /etc/ntp*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 701 Mar 22 1998 /etc/ntp.conf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 9 Oct 10 17:09 /etc/ntp.drift
n4hhe: {683}
I'm not connected right now so DNS isn't mapping numbers to names. Don't
know why my ntp.drift changed at 17:09 as xntpd was not connected to the
net in the past 18 hours. Altho it was connected at 17:15.
--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net
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