[SunHELP] RE: NTP Issue

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Phil,

We had a similar problem with NTP and I think what's happening is your
primary NTP server (babylon5) is not communicating properly with the Stratum
server above it. I would definitely focus your effort on making sure that
your primary NTP server is working first. I'll try and find the commands
that I ran to show there was issue with our systems.

Matthew

> Message: 8
> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:42:28 -0400
> From: Phil Stracchino <alaric at caerllewys.net>
> Subject: [SunHELP] Re: SunHELP Digest, Vol 10, Issue 13
> To: "'sunhelp at sunhelp.org'" <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
> Message-ID: <20031023174228.GA23440 at prydain.caerllewys.net>
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> On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 09:05:28AM -0400, Simoncini, Matthew wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> I am indeed; ntp-4.1.1 on both babylon5 and minbar.  I'm currently
> attempting to compile ntp-4.2.0, but it's not cooperating.  The other
> clients are Windows 2000 boxes using Dimension4 and time/tcp, 
> and Linux
> boxes (also running ntpd) which are syncing with netdate.  I have
> discovered that ntpdate on the Linux clients also fails, so it becomes
> clear that something is not working correctly with babylon5's 
> ntpd, but
> I don't know enough about ntpd to figure out what's wrong.
> 
> 
> llioness:root:~:8 # killall ntpd		# to free the ntp socket
> llioness:root:~:9 # netdate babylon5
> babylon5 -0.249          Thu Oct 23 13:35:34.000
> llioness:root:~:10 # ntpdate babylon5
> 23 Oct 13:35:37 ntpdate[31569]: no server suitable for 
> synchronization found
> 
> 
> 
> My /etc/ntp/ntp.conf file:
> 
> restrict default ignore
> restrict 192.168.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0
> enable ntp
> driftfile /etc/ntp/drift
> broadcast 192.168.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0
> 
> server clock.psu.edu
> server ntp-1.vt.edu
> server ntp.cmr.gov
> server ntp0.cornell.edu
> server time.chu.nrc.ca
> server time.nrc.ca
> server timelord.uregina.ca
> 
> 
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