Re: [ntp:questions] Troubleshooting who's at fault

2009-06-30 Thread Ronan Flood
David Woolley da...@ex.djwhome.demon.co.uk.invalid wrote: Yes, and fudge the stratum to 1, not 2. You mean zero, not 1, You're right, 0, so that the server is seen as stratum 1 by the client. which might be the problem, i.e. either fudge doesn't allow that, or the people who bolted NTP

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP - best practice if there is a local stratum 2 server

2009-06-30 Thread Terje Mathisen
erik magnuson wrote: Richard B. Gilbert wrote: It's easier to get and keep close synchronization if you have have some sort of a hardware reference clock such as a GPS timing receiver, a WWV receiver, etc. GPS timing receivers are available from $100 US and up. The bottom of the scale is

Re: [ntp:questions] ntp-keygen -s

2009-06-30 Thread Carsten Rieck
Dear David Mills, Thank you for your advice, I appreciate your time. I understand that the DNS name space and the NTP autokey name space are not connected. Nevertheless it would seem convenient to use DNS names for autokey in case trust groups consist of only a single trusted host. This would

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP - best practice if there is a local stratum 2 server

2009-06-30 Thread solx
Dave wrote: I'm trying to set up the time on a couple of machines at the University of Washington and have tried two ways: 1) Sync both to the ntp pool - not very successful, as they kept differing by enough to cause 'make' to say files were created in the future by a few ms - no doubt

Re: [ntp:questions] ntp-keygen -s

2009-06-30 Thread David Mills
Carsten, You ask where to go for examples and additional information on Autokey names. See the Authentication Optioins page in the documentation. You say you want to use DNS host names for Autokey host names. That's the default! If you want to use DNS host names for the trusted hosts, that's