[COLUG] ntp question

David Coulson david at davidcoulson.net
Wed May 28 19:29:55 EDT 2008


Because it can't connect to either of them.

Can you do 'ntpdate -q ocdcdns031.cml.lib.oh.us' and have it work? If 
not, you probably have a network issue which is limiting access to the 
NTP services on the remote system.

Travis Sidelinger wrote:
> I'm trying to configure two new NTP stratum 2 servers that will 
> provide time services for our entire network.
>
> When I take a look at the running status, I see that my new servers 
> show up as stratum 16.  Anyone know why are they not stratum 2?
>
> # ntpq -p
>      remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   
> offset  jitter
> ============================================================================== 
>
> *time-a.nist.gov .ACTS.           1 u   22   64  377   37.759   
> -5.041   2.757
> +time-B.timefreq .ACTS.           1 u   23   64  377   79.376   
> -9.369   1.552
> +tick.usno.navy. .USNO.           1 u   23   64  377   56.151   
> -3.829   3.294
>  LOCAL(1)        LOCAL(1)        12 l   20   64  377    0.000    
> 0.000   0.001
>  ocdcdns031.cml. .INIT.          16 u  103  128    0    0.000    0.000 
> 4000.00
> -rtr-76-1-vlan2. 129.6.15.29      2 u   13   64  377    0.434   
> -4.067   0.364
>  rtr-73-1-vlan73 .INIT.          16 u    -  128    0    0.000    0.000 
> 4000.00
>
>
> Here is my configuration:
>
> # cat /etc/ntp.conf | grep -v ^# | grep '^[a-z]'
> restrict ocdcdns031.cml.lib.oh.us nomodify notrap
> restrict rtr-76-1-vlan2.cml.lib.oh.us nomodify notrap
> restrict rtr-73-1-vlan733.columbuslibrary.org nomodify notrap
> server time-a.nist.gov
> server time-a.timefreq.bldrdoc.gov
> server tick.usno.navy.mil
> server 127.127.1.1
> peer ocdcdns031.cml.lib.oh.us
> peer rtr-76-1-vlan2.cml.lib.oh.us
> peer rtr-73-1-vlan733.columbuslibrary.org
> fudge 127.127.1.1 stratum 12
>
>
> -Travis Sidelinger
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