Re: [ntp:questions] 3 Questions about setting up NTP

2008-04-10 Thread Danny Mayer
Ryan Malayter wrote: On Apr 8, 8:58 pm, Richard B. Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /etc/hosts is a perfectly OK thing to use. It's not the only tool for the job and in most circumstances it's not the best tool but it works! For example, I have, I think, eleven computers in the house. I'll

Re: [ntp:questions] 3 Questions about setting up NTP

2008-04-10 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
Ryan Malayter wrote: On Apr 8, 8:58 pm, Richard B. Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /etc/hosts is a perfectly OK thing to use. It's not the only tool for the job and in most circumstances it's not the best tool but it works! For example, I have, I think, eleven computers in the house. I'll

Re: [ntp:questions] 3 Questions about setting up NTP

2008-04-09 Thread David Woolley
Richard B. Gilbert wrote: /etc/hosts is a perfectly OK thing to use. It's not the only tool for the job and in most circumstances it's not the best tool but it works! It's neither sufficient nor necessary in this case. It's not sufficient because it will do nothing unless you also

Re: [ntp:questions] 3 Questions about setting up NTP

2008-04-09 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
Danny Mayer wrote: Richard B. Gilbert wrote: Danny Mayer wrote: Setting up DNS doesn't take much effort to set up though admittedly I also have worked on the source code. Setting up a DNS server on VMS and TCP/IP Services was an experience I'll carry to my grave. We had been using the

Re: [ntp:questions] 3 Questions about setting up NTP

2008-04-08 Thread Ryan Malayter
On Apr 7, 10:15 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (unix2266) wrote: 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? You don't need to mess with /etc/nosts unless you don't have access to a

Re: [ntp:questions] 3 Questions about setting up NTP

2008-04-08 Thread Maarten Wiltink
unix2266 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: [ntp:questions] 3 Questions about setting up NTP

2008-04-08 Thread Danny Mayer
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

Re: [ntp:questions] 3 Questions about setting up NTP

2008-04-08 Thread Danny Mayer
Richard B. Gilbert wrote: Danny Mayer wrote: 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

Re: [ntp:questions] 3 Questions about setting up NTP

2008-04-08 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
Danny Mayer wrote: Richard B. Gilbert wrote: Danny Mayer wrote: 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