[SunHELP] NTP server issue

[Steve Wingate]

Don't you need to tell the internal time server to broadcast the time to
the subnet?

broadcast 172.16.255.255

or similiar.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Hostetler" <sinebubble at netscape.net>
To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 11:29 AM
Subject: [SunHELP] NTP server issue


> I'm using Solaris 7, fully patched (including 106541-17 and 109409-03,
which are related to NTP).
>
> My clients are able to sync with any time server outside our network,
but when I try to get them to sync to one of our internal servers, I get
no love -- just timeouts. Any suggestions on what to look for?
>
> ntpdate yields:
>  4 Oct 11:27:20 ntpdate[24335]: no server suitable for synchronization
found
>
> This the server ntp.conf.  The clients are on the 10.80 network.
>
>
> # Prohibit general access to this service.
> restrict default ignore
>
> # Permit systems on this network to synchronize with this
> # time service. Do not permit those systems to modify the
> # configuration of this service. Also, do not use those
> # systems as peers for synchronization.
> restrict 10.80.0.0 mask 255.255.0.0 notrust nomodify notrap
>
> enable auth monitor
> driftfile /var/ntp/ntp.drift
> statsdir /var/ntp/ntpstats/
>
> # Permit time synchronization with our time source, but do not
> # permit the source to query or modify the service on this system.
> #restrict 17.254.0.31 noquery nomodify notrap
>
> # US CA clock.isc.org
> #restrict 192.5.5.250 notrap
> server 192.5.5.250 prefer
>
> # US CA timekeeper.isi.edu
> #restrict 128.9.176.30 notrap
> server 128.9.176.30
>
> # US CA ntp-cup.external.hp.com
> restrict 192.6.38.127 notrap
>
> # Permit all access over the loopback interface. This could
> # be tightened as well, but to do so would effect some of
> # the administrative functions.
> restrict 127.0.0.1
>
> --
>
> Brian
>
>
>
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