Thank you very much, Thomas, that fixed it! /iain
Thomas Keusch wrote: >If there currently is no time source available for xntpd to sync with, >the daemon will refuse to propagate its own "unreliable" time, until >it is in sync again. > >On .1, add the following to the config: > >It tells the daemon to consider the local clock as a time source with >a high stratum, so it will try to sync to its lower stratum upstream >servers, and, failing that, sync to the local clock instead until the >upstream servers are available again. > >Thus it is synced at any time, not refusing to serve clients. > >server 127.127.1.0 >fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10