Thanks for your remark. I agreed to your point. But I want to know whether within these three system can i create a virtualisation that System A is a server for Sytem B and C and the time shown by System A should be updated by System B and C ( though it is the wrong time).
I tried that to do by just changing the /etc/inet/ntp.conf file in case if Server by mentioning peers < IP ADDR- OF - B> peers <IPADDR- OF - C> and in clients server < IP ADDR-OF- A> this much only. But nothing change to the current time happening in client systems. But deamon showing packet transmission and "ntp -p" in server showing info about both the clients And below is the internal command peers to the utility xntpdc I applied and got the info as mentioned below : xntpdc> peers remote local st poll reach delay offset disp ============================================== +HOST1 5.0.0.0 16 64 0 0.00000 0.000000 16.0000 +HOST2 5.0.0.0 16 64 0 0.00000 0.000000 16.0000 Here man page says if stratum the third feild ( st) is 16 then it is not sysnchonising with server. So is there anything else required to make a system behave as NTP server for some clients is the change in the config. file is not enough within a ISOLATED LAN ??? _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.isc.org https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions