That did the trick, thank you very much, Greg! /iain
Greg Wooledge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Iain Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> stratum 16, precision -17, leap 11, trust 000 >> >> It's like ntpdate doesn't consider .1 'suitable' or trustworthy to >> sync up with. Maybe I need to find a way to bump up .1's advertised >> stratum? > >That's it, precisely. > >You need to tell .1 to consider *itself* a stratum 10 time source. >You do this as follows: > > server 127.127.1.1 > fudge 127.127.1.1 stratum 10 > >(The number 127.127.1.1 is magic. It means "use the system clock". >Don't think of it as an IP address; pinging it will not work.) > >After a few minutes, this box should advertise itself as a stratum 10 >server when you ntptrace. At that point, the "client" (.2) box can >run "ntpdate 192.168.1.1" and ntp can maintain synchronization.
