Re: [Hampshire] NTP on RedHat Enterprise

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Author: Adrian Bridgett
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] NTP on RedHat Enterprise
On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 10:39:31 +0000 (+0000), Hugo Mills wrote:
>    My guess is that the ntpd machines aren't actually synced to a
> time-source. Check the status of the ntpd with "ntpq -p". The second
> field (refid) should be an IP address for at least one of the NTP
> services. If it isn't, then the ntpd isn't talking to the service. Of
> course, it's also possible that the upstream NTP server is somehow
> broken -- I know that Tony had problems with Windows time servers a
> while ago.


If you are all at the same site, why not run your own NTP server, sync
that to an external source, then sync all the other boxes to it? Not
only will it be slightly more accurate, but you won't end up with
boxes syncing to different sources.

Adrian
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