xntpd is the daemon you want to run on all your hosts to keep
synchronised.
It will answer the requests from other hosts and send requests to one
host.
So your firewall should use "boulder nuclear clock" as prefered time
server (warning some servers use authetification and you will not
retreive time on them without being allowed to) and accept all requests
from inside your network without authentification. all this is configured
in /etc/ntp.conf if you use xntp3.
ntpq is a small utility used to test your configuration and have a look
on the result (which computer is synchronised on which one and what is
the time difference between them ...)
I suggest that you synchronise your firewall the way Richard described
and synchronise the others computers of your local network using ntp...,
the config will be easier and the real problem is often to have all local
computers synchronised precisely.
as usual , read the doc (there is one in HTML format i don't have the
URL.
have fun
pascal
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Hajoglou [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 1:14 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: xntp setup
>
>
> I would like to setup my linux box to get its time from the boulder
> nuclear clock. Then I will set the rest of the network from the linux
> clock. I am a bit confused as to what I should be running:
>
> xntpd - Network Time Protocol (NTP) daemon
> ntpq - standard NTP query program
>
> So, it will work like this (unless there is a better config):
>
> the linux firewall will get the time
> our primary nt box will get the time from the firewall
> the PCs will get the time from the nt box
>
> I am not going to broadcast the time, just sit back and answer time
> requests. So, which service should I be running?
>
>
> Thank You
> David Hajoglou
>
>
