[ntp:questions] Answering only to the LAN

2011-07-04 Thread Andre Majorel
A local NTP server is running on the firewall, sync'd to my ISP's NTP server, ntp.myisp.net. I'm trying to configure the NTP server on the firewall to speak only to ntp.myisp.net and the hosts on the LAN. All my attempts lead to an NTP server which will talk to either ANYONE, including random hos

Re: [ntp:questions] Answering only to the LAN

2011-07-04 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
On 7/4/2011 10:15 AM, Andre Majorel wrote: A local NTP server is running on the firewall, sync'd to my ISP's NTP server, ntp.myisp.net. I'm trying to configure the NTP server on the firewall to speak only to ntp.myisp.net and the hosts on the LAN. All my attempts lead to an NTP server which wil

Re: [ntp:questions] Controlling the combine algorithm

2011-07-04 Thread David L. Mills
Steve, There is something wrong with the nomenclature in your message. By definition, the number of survivors is the number remaining after the cluster algorithm has completedd. This number is three by default, but can be changed using the minclock option. To reduce the numb er of survivors b

Re: [ntp:questions] Controlling the combine algorithm

2011-07-04 Thread David Woolley
Bottom quoting out of character: I believe that this refers to the following article, in which the writer wants the "best" (by which he means something like lowest offset) 6 out of 15 servers to contribute to the final time correction. I may have been responsible for wrongly suggesting maxclo