Re: OpenNTPD reliability

2007-03-26 Thread Luca Corti
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 14:26 -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote: Have you measured the time from ntpd startup until it logs `clock is now synced' in the log? On the same machine, I see anywhere from 10 minutes to about 1 hour. In normal cases, machines acting as time servers are always on. If it

Re: OpenNTPD reliability

2007-03-26 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Luca Corti wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 14:26 -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote: Have you measured the time from ntpd startup until it logs `clock is now synced' in the log? On the same machine, I see anywhere from 10 minutes to about 1 hour. In normal cases, machines

Re: OpenNTPD reliability

2007-03-25 Thread Luca Corti
On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 15:14 -0600, Shane Harbour wrote: Look at the -S option and see if that's what you want. I think you mean -s. Yes I use it but still the clients report they won't sync because of the server not being synced. ciao Luca

Re: OpenNTPD reliability

2007-03-25 Thread Shane Harbour
My apologies...you are right. Wasn't paying attention. I use -s on all of my servers to keep them updated. I hate having them off by a lot and am too impatient to wait for them to slowly sync themselves. Regards, Shane Luca Corti wrote: On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 15:14 -0600, Shane Harbour

Re: OpenNTPD reliability

2007-03-25 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 10:54:55PM +0200, Luca Corti wrote: On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 15:14 -0600, Shane Harbour wrote: Look at the -S option and see if that's what you want. I think you mean -s. Yes I use it but still the clients report they won't sync because of the server not being synced.

Re: OpenNTPD reliability

2007-03-24 Thread Marc Balmer
Luca Corti wrote: I heard about timedelta sensors. Are these devices supported by openntpd when running on linux? No, they use the OpenBSD specific sensors framework and this has not been ported to any other OS afaik. - mb

OpenNTPD reliability

2007-03-23 Thread Luca Corti
Hello, I've set up OpenNTPD 3.9p1 on Linux with a couple of servers to sync to and listen on to sync my machines to OpenNTPD. Clients (some openntpds, some ntpds, some Cisco routers) refuse to sync to my server. OpenNTPD on a client reports my OpenNTPD server is not synced. This is not

Re: OpenNTPD reliability

2007-03-23 Thread Shane Harbour
man ntpd Look at the -S option and see if that's what you want. Luca Corti wrote: Hello, I've set up OpenNTPD 3.9p1 on Linux with a couple of servers to sync to and listen on to sync my machines to OpenNTPD. Clients (some openntpds, some ntpds, some Cisco routers) refuse to sync to my server.