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Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 10:42:45 -0500
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@cold.org>
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Subject: Re: 'ntpdate' time server
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In the last episode (May 5), Brandon Gillespie said:
> Well, I tried that, and it didn't work (even from two boxes on the
> same network), so I'm assuming I didn't configure xntpd right. 
> Basically, I had it configured and running on Box A, on the same
> network as Box B (both FreeBSD), but running ntpdate on Box B and
> pointing it to Box A just errors out with 'no server suitable for
> synchronization found' even though xntpd is running on that box (if
> you try and run ntpdate on the box while xntpd is running it whines
> about an ntp server already running).

I just tested this, and ntpdate will not synch to an xntpd that was just
started (i.e. one that has not synchronized itself yet).  Run "ntpq -c
peers box-a".  If none of the servers has a "*" next to it, xntpd
doesn't trust any of its servers yet.  It takes about 5 minutes for
xntpd to pick a server to synch to.

If xntpd on box-a is running and is synched to another server, then you
should look at the connection between box-a and box-b. Try running (on
box-b) "ntpdate -d box-a" and see if packets are being exchanged.

	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com