Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 02:22:48 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Kay Schulz" <kay@kay-schulz.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: ntp and MAC Message-ID: <00ab01c16b63$fa381bc0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <AB176B6E-D64F-11D5-85A8-000A27AF0C18@kay-schulz.com>
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The NTP client must have a system time very close to that of the NTP server or the client will not synchronize. This is by design. The usual procedure is to run "ntpdate" first, this forcibly resets the client time to the identical time as the server, then you startup ntpd and the time will stay synchronized. The reason it's done this way is because if your NTP sources goes gunnysack and starts feeding time that is wildly off, your client will not maintain synchronization and this protects you from getting your time hosed. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Kay Schulz >Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 6:56 PM >To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: ntp and MAC > > >Hi >unfortunately I couldn't find a hint for the problems I have syncing my Mac >OS 9 or OS X with the ntpd from FreebSD. I am using FreeBSD 4.4 as a >firewall and wanted to support the network with a timeserver. >nettime on W2K works well. But it seems that also XP has problems with the >ntp and freebsd. >Any idea? >BTW: Here is my ntpd.conf (and I verified the ntpd is working) > >server localhost prefer >broadcast 10.255.255.255 >enable monitor stats # enable the good stuff >driftfile /etc/ntp.drift # path for drift file >statsdir /var/log/ntpstats/ # directory for statistics files >filegen peerstats file peerstats type day enable >filegen loopstats file loopstats type day enable >filegen clockstats file clockstats type day enable >restrict 10.0.0.0 mask 255.0.0.0 notrust nomodify notrap >--- >WAP = Wait and Pay >Kay Schulz >kay@kay-schulz.com >http://www.ooad.de/ > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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