[SunHELP] A time sync problem

[Dale Ghent]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Phil Stracchino wrote:

> I have a time syncing problem.
>
> Here's the situation:
>
> My most accurate (best timekeeping) CMOS clock is on an Athlon machine
> (babylon5) running Linux.  It syncs daily to a consensus of eight
> stratum 2 timeservers.  For my own internal purposes, it is thus
> effectively a stratum 3 timeserver.
>
> All my other machines then sync to babylon5 every 30 minutes....  in
> theory.  Where the theory falls down is my NFS server, minbar (a U30
> running Solaris 9), which refuses to accept that babylon5 is stratum 3,
> and in fact insists that babylon5 is stratum 16 and not a suitable host
> for time synchromization.

A client showing stratum 16 for a NTP server usually means that it cannot
contact or gain a sync with that server's ntp daemon.

I suppose on your client machines, you're not running ntpd/xntpd and are
instead running ntpdate out of cron?

/dale