xntpd will start without complaint, but unless you configure it in /etc/ntp.conf to use the win2k box, it will happily synchronize against itself without complaint.
ntp is really scary. Everyone in the world of ntp can be a client and a server. Like the blind leading the blind. Is the win2k server really synchronized to a standard clock? Joel On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 08:11:03PM -0500, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > The observations may have a solution in them <G>! > > I'll check all this out with our IT people. The Unix box came with a > timekeeping system and our IT people have not ever worked with Unix. I > have a long time ago so I got called! > > I didn't run xntpd because I thought it was there to act as a server. > However, I'll check it out more tomorrow. > > Thanks. > > Joel Hammer wrote: > > > No solutions, just some observations. I don't use w2k. > > This is from the documentation for ntp: > > > > ntpdate: Directory containing sources for a program to set the > > local machine time from one or more remote machines running NTP. > > Operates like rdate, but much more accurate. > > > > I can get your error when I run ntpdate against an XP pro box and against > > a linux box which is not running ntp. But, it works fine with a linux box > > running xntpd. However, when I turned off the xntp daemon, then > > turned it back on, it took several minutes for the server to come up to > > full speed before it started to accept requests from ntpdate from my > > client, even though xntpd was running fine on the server. > > > > So, is the Win2K server running the ntp daemon? Do any other clients > > connect successfully? Maybe it is running a timeserver daemon on port 37? > > (rfc 868). Do you have the equivalent of netstat -anp on the win2k box? > > > > ntp can be configured to serve only certain hosts or networks. How is the > > win2k box configured? > > > > Also I might ask, why do you want to run ntpdate? Why not just run the > > xntpd daemon on your Unix box and be syncronized to within milliseconds? > > Once it is set up, it works without any problems (so far.) > > > > Joel > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 06:45:55PM -0500, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > >> have been asked by IT to help them with a Unix system they have. It's > >> SCO > >> Unix (uname -a gives UNIX_SV, 4.2mp 2.1.3 i686 x86at). > >> > >> They are trying to use ntpdate to synch with a Win2K server that is > >> acting > >> as a ntp server. For testing we ran ntpdate servername and get the > >> message "No servers available for synchronization". > >> > >> 1. The Win2K server is in the hosts file and can be pinged. > >> 2. DNS does work - I set it up and tested it. > >> > >> What does this message mean - does it mean that it found the server but > >> didn't like something about it or can it not find the server? I also > >> tried the -o option for ntpdate. > >> > >> In the process of troubleshooting we thought there might be problems with > >> the network setup so we tried the following. This machine is no a > >> network with a mask of 255.255.252.0 as is the server it's trying to get > >> to. > >> > >> 1. First I tried the admin tools to set the netmask by selecting other > >> and > >> putting in the mask. When the system was restarted it wouldn't talk to > >> anything and trying to change the route settings via the admin tool gave > >> a "there's an error - see your administrator" - I was the administrator - > >> let me in to fix it! -but using ifconfig to change the netmask and doing > >> a > >> down, then up on the interface allowed us to connect. However, the > >> changes > >> made by ifconfig did not stick during reboots. What's going on here? > >> > >> 2. We tried to add the route -n default nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn 1 for the > >> default > >> gate way. The route command didn't give an error but nothing changed in > >> the routing table as listed by netstat -r. > >> > >> 3. The route command will give "To fix" errors on many of the commands > >> such as add or delete listed in the man page. What is it trying to tell > >> me? As far as I could tell the syntax was correct. > >> > >> Thanks for any help. > >> > >> -- > >> Brett I. Holcomb > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> AKA Grunt <>< > >> Registered Linux User #188143 > >> Remove R777 to email > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Linux-users mailing list - > >> http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe > >> info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. > > -- > Brett I. Holcomb > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > AKA Grunt <>< > Registered Linux User #188143 > Remove R777 to email > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
