Greetings- I have been using xntpd to keep some machines on time.
I recently switched to a different machine (PPro, Debian 2.1+updates, kernel 2.2.1) to handle masquerading and xntpd (etc...), but I just noticed that xntpd doesn't do anything any longer (okay, I changed the machine from ppc to ppro and from redhat to debian, so "any longer" is probably the wrong phrase). An exerpt from /var/log/xntpd: 12 Dec 06:49:25 xntpd[14702]: read drift of 46.257 from /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift 13 Dec 00:20:57 xntpd[14702]: xntpd exiting on signal 15 One server I have in ntp.conf is tock.cs.unlv.edu $ntptrace tock.cs.unlv.edu tock.CS.UNLV.EDU: stratum 2, offset 0.853196, synch distance 0.04726 usno.pa-x.dec.com: stratum 1, offset 0.842812, synch distance 0.02371, refid 'USNO' but (having stopped xntpd3) $ntpdate tock.cs.unlv.edu 13 Dec 00:55:08 ntpdate[16494]: no server suitable for synchronization found I am not sure where to look now. I believe that ipchains is configured to allow ntp to communicate, but I could be wrong. I am suspicious of my ipchains config. However, I have that machine serve machines inside my network, and I get $ntpdate <internal address of this server machine> 13 Dec 00:57:38 ntpdate[25953]: no server suitable for synchronization found (again, from a machine within the internal net, and after I restarted xntpd3 on the server machine) I am reading through the xntpd-doc stuff, but if anyone has any suggestions, I would appreciate the hint. Thanks Dan Hugo