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From: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>
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Subject: Re: xntpd server
To: pol@leissner.se (Peter Olsson)
Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 12:49:47 +0200 (SAT)
Cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org, archie@whistle.com
In-Reply-To:  <9605051212.aa14960@lda.leissner.se> from Peter Olsson at "May 5, 96 12:12:18 pm"
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On the one that must supply the others with time, put the following line
in the ntp.conf file:

server  127.127.1.0     # Local phase-locked clock

That will make that one use its local clock as a reference clock.

John
-- 
John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za

> Hello!
> 
> Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> wrote:
> > How does one get xntpd running on a server so that local machines
> > can use it for time synchronization (clients using ntpdate)?
> > 
> > Even though xntpd is running and there are some packets exchanged
> > (detected with EtherNet sniffer), the ntpdate command on the client
> > yeilds "no suitable servers for synchronization found" ...
> > 
> > I'd like to have the server synchronizing from some "unspecified"
> > source, for now external Internet servers but in the future possibly
> > a radio. So in either case, the server would service requests using
> > whatever the system time was.
> 
> What a coincidence! Yesterday I was assigned the task of coordinating
> time among our freebsd-servers. I started playing with xntpd and
> ntpdate. I got "no suitable servers ..." every time, so I looked in
> the code.
> 
> Seems that ntpdate (and probably also xntpd) requires a server with stratum
> less than 16 to synchronize time with that server. The problem is that
> all our freebsd-servers have stratum=16.
> 
> So, how do I either lower a servers local stratum or make the programs
> accept servers with stratum=16? Seems to me that this requirement is there
> for a reason, that's why I'd rather not hack the code if I can avoid it.
> 
> Peter Olsson    pol@leissner.se
>