Re: Trouble getting local ntp server working
That did the trick, thank you very much, Greg!
/iain
Greg Wooledge <wooledge@kellnet.com> wrote:
>Iain Lamb (sephoqu@halfbrain.com) wrote:
>
>> stratum 16, precision -17, leap 11, trust 000
>>
>> It's like ntpdate doesn't consider .1 'suitable' or trustworthy to
>> sync up with. Maybe I need to find a way to bump up .1's advertised
>> stratum?
>
>That's it, precisely.
>
>You need to tell .1 to consider *itself* a stratum 10 time source.
>You do this as follows:
>
> server 127.127.1.1
> fudge 127.127.1.1 stratum 10
>
>(The number 127.127.1.1 is magic. It means "use the system clock".
>Don't think of it as an IP address; pinging it will not work.)
>
>After a few minutes, this box should advertise itself as a stratum 10
>server when you ntptrace. At that point, the "client" (.2) box can
>run "ntpdate 192.168.1.1" and ntp can maintain synchronization.
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