From owner-freebsd-net Sat Oct 10 15:48:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA11947 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 15:48:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.webspan.net (mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA11942 for ; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 15:48:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from opsys@mail.webspan.net) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with SMTP id SAA27763; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 18:48:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 18:48:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Open Systems Networking X-Sender: opsys@orion.webspan.net To: Jim Cassata cc: FreeBSD Net Subject: Re: xntpd In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- "You both seem to be ignoring the fact that the networking market is driven by so-called 'IT professionals' these days, most of whom can't tell the difference between an ARP and a carp." -Wes Peters ===================================| Open Systems Networking And Consulting. FreeBSD 2.2.7 is available now! | Phone: 316-326-6800 -----------------------------------| 1402 N. Washington, Wellington, KS-67152 FreeBSD: The power to serve! | E-Mail: opsys@open-systems.net http://www.freebsd.org | Consulting-Network Engineering-Security ===================================| http://open-systems.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message