Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 16:03:45 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: jhall@vandaliamo.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ntpd time server Message-ID: <20070915210345.GA34684@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> In-Reply-To: <3713.65.117.48.155.1189889169.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net> References: <3713.65.117.48.155.1189889169.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net>
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On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 08:46:09PM -0000, jhall@vandaliamo.net wrote:
> Is it possible to use ntpd as a client as well as a server?
Of course. Your server is a client of its own ntpd.
> I have my firewall setup to get updates from the Internet which it does
> without any problem. However, I am not seeing any clients syncrhonizing
> with the firewall.
>
> The firewall ntp.conf files contains the following.
>
> server ntp-2.mcs.anl.gov prefer
> driftfile /data_prgs/local/etc/ntp.drift
Is my understanding these days the Politically Correct and Polite thing
to do is not list a specific machine (unless its yours) as ntp server
but to use servers which have volunteered to be placed in a revolving
DNS pool, like this:
server 0.pool.ntp.org
server 1.pool.ntp.org
server 2.pool.ntp.org
server pool.ntp.org
> The clients contain the following.
> server firewall
> driftfile /var/db/ntp.drift
>
> firewall is a resolved via internal DNS, and it is resolved to the correct
> IP address.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
On your clients type "ntpd -c peers" and one machine should be listed,
your "server" named "firewall" something like this (on MacOS X):
% ntpdc -c peers
remote local st poll reach delay offset disp
=======================================================================
=andraia.local 192.168.123.177 2 4096 3 0.00085 -0.231870 3.95285
Do the same thing on the "server" to see what it thinks of the servers
it is connected to.
--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
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