On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 03:23:55PM -0700, Cliff W. Draper wrote:
> I have a LAN off of the net and I want to run my own NTP server. Is there
> a special NTP server program available? I haven't been able to figure out
> how to make xntp3 be a server when it doesn't have another NTP server to
> sync off of. Any ideas?
Have you any real clock sources? When no, use your system clock as
reference. Simply add two lines to /etc/ntp.conf:
server 127.127.1.1
fudge 127.127.1.1 stratum 8
Server 127.127.1.1 is just system clock - read
/usr/doc/xntp3/html/*:
|Synopsis
|
| Address: 127.127.1.u
| Reference ID: LCL
| Driver ID: LOCAL
|
|Description
|
| This is a hack to allow a machine to use its own system clock as a
| reference clock, i.e., to free-run using no outside clock discipline
| source. This is useful if NTP is to be used in an isolated environment
| with no radio clock or NIST modem available. Pick a machine that has a
| good clock oscillator (Digital machines are good, Sun machines are not)
| and configure it with this driver. Set the clock using the best means
| available, like eyeball-and-wristwatch. Then, point all the other
| machines at this one or use broadcast (not multicast) mode to distribute
| time.
[...]
and use stratum 8 (or greater) to don't fake real clock references when
you'll connect to them.
Mirek
