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