Kent West said on Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 12:03:26PM -0600: > Our Windows admin guy tells me that the time server for campus is > running SNTP (RFC 1769). I've noticed that neither my Debian box nor two > Macintosh OS/X boxes can synch time against our ntp server. However, > they can synch against a Solaris server we have. > > Does Linux and/or OS/X not work with SNTP? SNTP is client-only. It's just NTP without the server-side of things. So, if the Windows server is running SNTP, it can't serve time to anyone. Linux and OS/X can run SNTP clients just fine (and, in fact, ntpdate is effectively such a client). > How do I determine if my Debian box can work with SNTP, or if it only > works with NTP? Ditto the Mac. Simple test: What does ntpdate -q your.time.server tell you? If ntpdate can't talk to it, then it's either not running an NTP server, or it's filtering out NTP requests from you. M
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