Unruh wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (unix2266) writes: > >> Folks; >> I'm setting up a new NTP server to sync time for our network. I >> have one Linux server that needs to point to that NTP server >> My 3 questions are: >> >> 1. I added the IP address for the NTP server to the "/etc/hosts" >> file on the Linux server. Is that all i need to do to make the Linux server >> point to the NTP server? > > Yup. If your ntp server was in some dns server, you did not even have to do > that.
You should not be touching etc/hosts for this purpose. If you want to use a specific IP address for a server you can do that in the ntp.conf file. If you have a DNS server you can put it in there and specify the FQDN on the server line but you shouldn't be messing with /etc/hosts. That's a long obsolete file and it really should be empty under normal circumstances. Danny _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
