[SunHELP] RE: SunHELP Digest, Vol 10, Issue 13

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> Message: 15
> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:25:37 -0400
> From: Phil Stracchino <alaric at caerllewys.net>
> Subject: [SunHELP] A time sync problem
> To: SunHELP <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>, Geeks <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> Message-ID: <20031022202537.GA31650 at prydain.caerllewys.net>
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> 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.
> 
> Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get minbar to accept 
> babylon5 as
> a valid timeserver?  I'm deathly tired of NFS clock drift.
> 
Phil,

I would assume you're running NTP on your servers and if so, are you running
the same version of NTP on babylon5 and minbar? The other servers that are
synching to your Linux box, what types of machines are those and are you
synching using rdate or ntp?

Matthew