NTP clients

dirtboy · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 10:00 pm Post subject: NTP clients

I have been through several of the the mini faqs I found on the boards, but none of them are helping me in this situation. I have one machine running ntpd just fine. I now want to have the other machines in this network sync to this machine. How do you configure machine 1 to be a server, and consequently how do you configure the clients to use it?

Every time I try to connect from the clients to the server using ntptrace or ntpq -p I get

ikaro · Advocate Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 2527 Location: Denmark

good old google:
http://networking.earthweb.com/netsysm/article.php/10954_3302411_3
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dirtboy · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 11:07 pm Post subject:

Thanks, but that doesn't work. The server is running fine and get updates from the public servers, but the clients still cannot connect to my server. Here is my client's ntp.conf file:

dirtboy · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 11:12 pm Post subject:

Here is my server's ntp.conf (with comments removed for brevity):

evanduser · n00b Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Posts: 22

Here are working settings (excluding external servers and LOCAL)

Telamon · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Dec 2003 Posts: 129

Not really a fix for ntpd, but you might want to check out rdate. Seems to work fine for me, I just have an entry "rdate -s timeserver" setup in root's cron.

dirtboy · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 4:37 am Post subject:

I figured it out. I wasn't setting the server in the /etc/conf.d/ntp-client script. I was setting it in /etc/conf.d/ntpd. Works fine now. Thanks for the suggestions.