Re: [gentoo-user] Fine Tuning NTP Server

2013-05-10 Thread Andrea Conti
Hello, server tick.nrc.ca minpoll 64 maxpoll 1024 iburst prefer Ouch! minpoll and maxpoll should be specified as the log2 of the actual value, i.e. 6 and 10. Those are the defaults anyway. disable auth broadcastclient server ntp.server.com prefer This looks fine to me; although

Re: [gentoo-user] Fine Tuning NTP Server

2013-05-10 Thread Pandu Poluan
On May 10, 2013 5:23 PM, Andrea Conti a...@alyf.net wrote: Hello, server tick.nrc.ca minpoll 64 maxpoll 1024 iburst prefer Ouch! minpoll and maxpoll should be specified as the log2 of the actual value, i.e. 6 and 10. Those are the defaults anyway. disable auth broadcastclient

Re: [gentoo-user] Fine Tuning NTP Server

2013-05-10 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Andrea, Thank you so much for your time. I missed the part about log^2 in the documentation. Kind Regards, Nick. On 5/10/13, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On May 10, 2013 5:23 PM, Andrea Conti a...@alyf.net wrote: Hello, server tick.nrc.ca minpoll 64 maxpoll 1024 iburst

Re: [gentoo-user] Fine Tuning NTP Server

2013-05-09 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Andrea, Thank you so much for your response! I was reluctant to include configuration related material for the sake of not insulting anyone however, on the server we have set: server tick.nrc.ca minpoll 64 maxpoll 1024 iburst prefer server tock.nrc.ca minpoll 64 maxpoll 1024 iburst

[gentoo-user] Fine Tuning NTP Server

2013-05-08 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, A while back I was inquiring about the best way to have computers on the network synched. Long story short, we opted to go with an NTP server installed on one machine, and synching the rest of the machines against it. However, I am not sure if the NTP server is properly synched

Re: [gentoo-user] Fine Tuning NTP Server

2013-05-08 Thread Andrea Conti
Hi, The official explanation of the output of ntpq -p is here: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/decode.html#peer although http://tech.kulish.com/2007/10/30/ntp-ntpq-output-explained/ is probably a bit more understandable if you're not familiar with ntpd. remote refid