Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 10:24:52 -0600 (CST) From: Don Read <dread@calcasieu.com> To: Sean Noonan <snoonan@cx952600-a.fed1.sdca.home.com> Cc: noonans@home.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: time sync problem--ntpdate AND xntpd?? Message-ID: <XFMail.000119102452.dread@calcasieu.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001190752470.2731-100000@cx952600-a.fed1.sdca.home.com>
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On 19-Jan-00 Sean Noonan wrote: > Dear list: > > I have a home RFC1918 net linked to the world via a FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE > gateway/NAT/IPFW box. I'm tired of my clocks being off by hours from each > other so I did some research and discovered NTP. > > I found NTP clients for my Novell and M$ boxen. I figured I'd use ntpdate > on my FreeBSD workstations. I also figured I'd use ntpdate **AND** xntpd > on my gateway/NAT/IPFW box. That way, I figured, my gateway/firewall box > would get the time from a reliable time source and then the rest of my > boxes would look to it for their time source. Sounded good. > > Until I read this in man ntpdate: "Ntpdate will decline to set the date > if an NTP server (e.g. xntpd(8)) is running on the same host". > > So, what should I do? It didn't/doesn't make sense to me to have all of > my worksatations use internet bandwidth to check time; better to have one > check the time and the the rest get their time from it. > > What am I missing, conceptually? What are my alternatives? Is their a > NTP proxy I could run on my firewall? > at boot run ntpdate to set your clock, then xntpd to keep in sync. /etc/rc.conf: ------------------- ntpdate_enable="YES" ntpdate_program="ntpdate" ntpdate_flags="tick.usno.navy.mil tock.usno.navy.mil" xntpd_enable="YES" xntpd_program="xntpd" /etc/ntp.conf: ------------------- server ntp.psi.net server chisos.ots.utexas.edu server norad.arc.nasa.gov peer my.local.boxen.com driftfile /etc/ntp.drift Regards, --- Don Read dread@calcasieu.com EDP Manager dread@texas.net Calcasieu Lumber Co. Austin TX -- No Coffee No Peace. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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