[SunHELP] A time sync problem

[Phil Stracchino]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 04:50:10PM -0400, Dale Ghent wrote:
> 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?

The client with the problem is running xntpd, yes.  the timeserver is
running ntpd.  The other clients are for the most part syncing with
netdate, ntpdate, or Windows NTP clients.  I hadn't considered the
possibility that ntpd might somehow not be functioning properly.  I'll
check it out.


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