[hobbit] Ntpdate problem

Daniel J McDonald dan.mcdonald at austinenergy.com
Tue Sep 13 18:28:26 CEST 2005


On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 11:39 -0400, Al Payne wrote:
> The "stratum 16" would seem to indicate that your NTP server is not
> properly syncing with a higher ranking (lower stratum) server.  As a
> result ntpdate views this server as unsuitable for getting time from. 
> The ntpd process is still responding, which is why bb would pass the
> test, but there's still something wrong with the configuration.  Start
> with checking the NTP communication between your NTP server and the
> server it is getting time from.

If you are using authenticated ntp, ntpdate probably won't work without
some additional command-line options, where xntpdc knows about keys more
automatically

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Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CNX, CISSP # 78281
Austin Energy

dan.mcdonald at austinenergy.com




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