Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 18:48:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Open Systems Networking <opsys@mail.webspan.net> To: Jim Cassata <jim@web-ex.com> Cc: FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: xntpd Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9810101843310.20889-100000@orion.webspan.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810101746290.14920-100000@Homer.Web-Ex.com>
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On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Jim Cassata wrote:
>
> Is anyone using this or a better way to keep server clocks in sync?
> It doesn't seem to do anything, 4 servers all running xntpd with a
> /etc/ntp.conf (as per the man pages) as follows:
>
> server 128.173.14.71
Is 128.173.14.71 an actual time server?
> driftfile /etc/ntp.drift
Did you tell xntpd to use this file?
> and there is a writable driftfile that never gets written to. According to
> the complete FreeBSD book, the driftfile's presence in the conf file tells
> xntpd to get the time from the server, and it's absence tells it to get
> the time from listening to ntp broadcasts.
To get all your servers to sync to a common time you need to tell the main
xntpd server that gets its time from an atomic clock to broadcast time
notices to your lan. I think the option to xntpd is: broadcast lan-netmask
Chris
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