From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 1 21:31:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA00830 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 21:31:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA00821 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 21:31:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA02250; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 21:31:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 21:31:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ntp syncronization In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 1 Oct 1996, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote: > I currently don't have access to the ntp newsgroup, can't find the mailing > list, beat on it until I had a headache, so finally decided to bug someone > here. > > I'm trying to syncronize a subnet of machines using ntp. I've got one > FreeBSD machine that runs stable if we loose our internet connection, and > I'd like to set it up so that its internal clock is considered a stratum > 13 clock source, because while having the correct time is important, > having everyone agree on the time is more important, and if we loose our > connection, everthing falls back to stratum 16, so they won't syncronize > with each other then. >From my understanding of xntpd, it won't latch onto a server unless you specifically provide one in the configuration file. This is using the default connection mode. If you're on broadcast, though, I'm not sure this will work. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet..uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major