From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 30 04:54:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F285E16A4CE for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 04:54:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from usw2.natel.net (2b.bz [209.152.117.190]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3E60B43D2D for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 04:54:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from WD@US-Webmasters.com) Received: (qmail 81837 invoked from network); 30 Aug 2004 04:54:17 -0000 Received: from batv-01-027.dialup.netins.net (HELO xyz.US-Webmasters.com) (216.248.109.28) by us-webmasters.com with SMTP; 30 Aug 2004 04:54:17 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20040829235003.04a7c350@209.152.117.178> X-Sender: wd@209.152.117.178 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 23:53:40 -0500 To: Matthew Seaman From: "W. D." In-Reply-To: <20040829110402.GD9230@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co .uk> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20040827020055.07f07260@209.152.117.178> <5.1.0.14.2.20040827020055.07f07260@209.152.117.178> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ntpd as broadcastclient - not working? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 04:54:21 -0000 At 06:04 8/29/2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: >Re ntpd as broadcastclient - n1.ems>=20 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3Dus-ascii >Content-Disposition: inline > >On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 02:07:16AM -0500, W. D. wrote: >> Hi folks, >>=20 >> I have Tardis (Windows) running on my network broadcasting NTP=20 >> time signals (right now every 4 seconds), but the=20 >> FreeBSD machine is running 5 seconds faster than=20 >> all the other computers. >>=20 >>=20 >> Here are the lines that I added to /etc/rc.conf: >>=20 >> xntpd_enable=3D"YES" >> xntpd_flags=3D"-A -c /etc/ntp.conf -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -l= /var/log/ntpd.log"=20 >>=20 >> (Both 'top' and 'ps -aux' show ntpd running after I rebooted. >>=20 >>=20 >> Here are the lines that I added to /etc/ntp.conf: >>=20 >> driftfile /etc/ntp.drift >> broadcastclient >>=20 >>=20 >> Does anyone have some ideas why it isn't synching up? > >Don't you need to use ntp.keys in order to synch to a broadcast or >multicast server? > >See ntp.conf(5): > > broadcastclient > This command enables reception of broadcast server messages to > any local interface (type b) address. Upon receiving a= message > for the first time, the broadcast client measures the nominal > server propagation delay using a brief client/server exchange > with the server, then enters the broadcast client mode, in= which > it synchronizes to succeeding broadcast messages. Note that,= in > order to avoid accidental or malicious disruption in this= mode, > both the server and client should operate using symmetric-key= or > public-key authentication as described in Authentication= Options. > > Cheers, > > Matthew Thanks Matthew for your reply. My 'man ntpd' page gives the -A option to turn off authentication: -A Disable authentication mode (http://www.Google.com/search?q=3D%22-A+Disable+authentication+mode%22) As far as I can tell, there is no way to enable authentication using Tardis. I was hoping that there would be a simple solution utilizing Tardis, since it works great on Windows. Start Here to Find It Fast!=99 ->= http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ $8.77 Domain Names -> http://domains.us-webmasters.com/