Re: [gentoo-user] Fine Tuning NTP Server

[Pandu Poluan]

On May 10, 2013 5:23 PM, "Andrea Conti" <alyf@××××.net> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> > server  tick.nrc.ca minpoll 64 maxpoll 1024 iburst prefer
>
> Ouch! minpoll and maxpoll should be specified as the log2 of the actual
> value, i.e. 6 and 10. Those are the defaults anyway.
>
> > disable auth
> > broadcastclient
> > server ntp.server.com prefer
>
> This looks fine to me; although configuring a broadcast association when
> your clients also have a unicast association to the same server seems a
> bit pointless, this should not cause any harm.
>
> I think you should first try to fix your server config and see if
> getting a proper sync on the server also solves the problem with the
> clients.
>
> > As for /etc/conf.d/ntpd, we have set nothing. To be honest I did not
> > even know the file
> > existed till you mentioned it:
> >
> > NTPD_OPTS="-u ntp:ntp"
>
> That is where you put the commandline options you want ntpd to be
> started with.
>
> > I would have liked to be better prepared for this but the gentoo wiki
> > page has been down for a few weeks now. We are not looking for
> > microsecond synchronization however, down to the second would be nice!
>
> I doubt you can consistently achieve microsecond-level synchronization
> with NTP ;)
>
> The official documentation of the ntp suite [1] is a good source of
> information; the man pages of ntpd and ntp.conf are also quite
> extensive, albeit a bit terse.
>
> andrea
>
> [1] http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/index.html
>
>
>

Many thanks Andrea!

Although I'm not the original poster, but within the next couple of months,
me & my team will have to implement something similar. Your reply is a good
reference for us!

Again, thank you!

Rgds,
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