From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 31 11:34:42 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id LAA16381 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 11:34:42 -0700 Received: from itsdsv1.enc.edu (itsdsv1.enc.edu [199.93.252.241]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA16375 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 11:34:40 -0700 Received: (from owensc@localhost) by itsdsv1.enc.edu (8.6.11/8.7.2 rev 08/22/95) id OAA08968; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 14:34:08 -0400 Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 14:34:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Owens To: "Garrett A. Wollman" cc: questions list FreeBSD Subject: Re: ntpdate broken? NOPE! In-Reply-To: <9508311822.AA04815@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 31 Aug 1995, Garrett A. Wollman wrote: > < said: > > > I give the command ntpdate nic.near.net (a local stratum 2 server), > > I get the following: > > 31 Aug 13:34:12 ntpdate: no server suitable for synchronization found > > nic.near.net is still running the ancient version 2 ntp code. > (Shouldn't that be `nic.ner.bbnplanet.com' or some such nonsense?) > You need to use more up-to-date servers or the `-o' flag to tell > ntpdate that it should speak the old protocol. > Ahhh... user error again.... I didn't realize you had to specify the protocol version number after the -o flag. Oops! My bad! It's working for me now... Thanks! --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Owens Email: owensc@enc.edu "I read somewhere to learn is to Information Technology Services remember... and I've learned that Eastern Nazarene College we've all forgot..." - King's X -------------------------------------------------------------------------