[ILUG] ntp

[Mark Kilmartin]

OK the server seems to be setup right.

NTP on the clients seem to be OK and seems to startup ok.

If however I run ntpdate -q server

To actually query the server.

Then I get the following output.

server x.x.x.x, stratum 16, offset -1.436532, delay 0.02574
18 Jan 11:46:51 ntpdate[19901]: no server suitable for synchronization
found

On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 11:42, Colm Buckley wrote:
> On Fri 18 Jan 2002 11:38, Mark Kilmartin wrote:
> 
> > The clients on the network won't use it to sync saying it is a
> > stratum 16 server.
> 
> That's odd; I've had no problems with the Debian NTP server; but I
> have it set up slightly differently - my server syncs with some S1s
> and S2s, and broadcasts to the local network.
> 
> On the server, I have in /etc/ntp.conf:
> 
> server upstream.server.1
> server upstream.server.2
> server upstream.server.3
> broadcast 10.255.255.255
> 
> (where 10.255.255.255 is the internal net's broadcast address, of
> course)
> 
> On the Linux clients, /etc/ntp.conf is:
> 
> disable auth
> enable bclient
> broadcastclient
> 
> ... and this works.  There's also a nice NTP broadcast client for
> windows NT and 2000 called K9, which also works well with this scheme.
> 
> A possibility is that your clients and server are trying to negotiate
> NTP authentication and failing - either set up auth properly or put in
> "disable auth" as above.
> 
>              Colm
> 
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