Primary NTP Server

Paul,

Thanks for your help as I think I got it straightened out now. For whatever
reason the firewall settings were not being applied, but after playing
around with it a bit it finally seems fine now. Thanks again.

Anwar Ayub
aayub@gwu.edu


> aayub@gwu.edu wrote:
> > Paul,
> >
> > The results of ntpq -pn are:
> >
> > remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter
> >
================================================== ============================
> > 127.127.1.0 LOCAL(0) 10 l 8 64 1 0.000 0.000 0.001
> > 192.5.41.40 .USNO. 1 u 7 64 1 11.738 0.169 0.001
> >
> > Thanks for the documentation and will go thru that today. Do I have to edit
> > the ntp.conf file to change some of the options (timesync type and time
> > server type) or can it be done thru Yast? Thanks for your help Paul.
>
> Don't know about YaST - i've never used it. Editing ntp.conf is very
> easy compared to some Unix config files (see sendmail.cf if you don't
> believe me ;-).
>
> What that ntpq output shows is that your clock is not synced with the
> remote time server (there should be a '*' in the first column). The NTP
> documentation recommends between 3 & 6 external servers (you can put in
> more, but it will only use 6). I suggest putting in a couple of lines
> in your ntp.conf that look like this:
>
> peer oceania.pool.ntp.org burst iburst
>
> (Substitute oceania for your part of the world - see www.pool.ntp.org.)
>
> Paul