Re: [leaf-user] Bering 1.0: ntpsimpl.lrp - Polling NTP Servers too frequently
Jay, On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 12:21:24 +1100 Jay Langford wrote: I was recently contacted by the admin of my NTP service who informed me that he had been receiving a large increase in NTP requests from various sources to his servers lately. (Note: I did contact him before I started using his service.) I've checked the documentation on http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/documentation.html but can't seem to find out where I can check (and decrease if necessary) the poll intervals.. does anyone know where I should be looking Not positive, but maxpoll: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ntp_spool/html/confopt.html might do what you want. Also: Is it possible to use ntpdate to update my routers time once (say in the morning) and get ntpsimpl to look at the system (cmos) clock instead of polling the servers listed in ntpsimpl config files... If so, can someone point me in the right direction to achieving this I would be most appreciative.. Again this is mostly speculation, but... Commenting out the server directives in ntp.conf should prevent ntpd from polling other servers. I assume (but you know what they say about that) ntpd uses the local system time when there are no external servers to consult. A line like: 04 20 * * * rootntpdate some.ntp.server hwclock --systohc in /etc/crontab will sync your system and hardware clocks with some.ntp.server every morning at 4:20am. --Brad --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
Re: [leaf-user] Bering 1.0: ntpsimpl.lrp - Polling NTP Servers too frequently
Jay At 12:21 06.02.2003 +1100, you wrote: Hi fellow LEAF'ers I was recently contacted by the admin of my NTP service who informed me that he had been receiving a large increase in NTP requests from various sources to his servers lately. (Note: I did contact him before I started using his service.) I've checked the documentation on http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/documentation.html but can't seem to find out where I can check (and decrease if necessary) the poll intervals.. does anyone know where I should be looking Also: Is it possible to use ntpdate to update my routers time once (say in the morning) and get ntpsimpl to look at the system (cmos) clock instead of polling the servers listed in ntpsimpl config files... If so, can someone point me in the right direction to achieving this I would be most appreciative.. I am not using ntpsimpl on my firewall but runing ntpd on an internal machine. This should not make a difference though. The ntpd normally does not put a heavy load on the uplink servers as the (default) minimum polling interval is 64s. So if you are running a ntpd on your Bering box that should be OK. All your other systems should now query your Bering system for time. That way your above stratum NTP server should be happy and the administrator will not complain. Cheers Erich THINK Püntenstrasse 39 8143 Stallikon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: BC9A 25BC 3954 3BC8 C024 8D8A B7D4 FF9D 05B8 0A16 --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
