[COLUG] ntp question

[Travis Sidelinger]

Thanks, the "ntpdate -q <hostname>" worked well.  The trouble with configuring ntp is that it can 
take 30 minutes to find out if your configuration changes worked.


David Coulson wrote:
> 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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