Jim Cunning wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Mike Lewis wrote:
>
> > I'm just setting up xntpd for the first time. I believe I have the server
> > piece running and syncing to the various time servers. However, I have some
> > questions that I've not yet been able to find the answers to:
> >
> > 1) Now that I have one machine on my LAN syncing to an outside source, how
> > do I configure the other Linux boxen to sync to the local time server rather
> > than the ones on Internet ?
>
just point the other linux boxes to the local master in /etc/ntp.conf. Once a
machine is synced to say a stratum 2 server it can and will serve the time as a
stratum 3 server. Another option that we use is to place the local master into
broadcast mode. While sounding scary from a bandwidth standpoint it will serve to
reduce bandwidth usage over a lan with many boxes trying to sync to it since there
is only one broadcast for all machines on the lan.
> There are other WinXX programs available that use methods not requiring
> Samba. One called "atomtime" is the only name I remember right now. As
> far as I recall it's shareware. You may be able to find others at TUCOWS
> or similar shareware/freeware collections.
>
> Jim Cunning
>
take a look at tardis for win boxes works great here. The k9 version is cheap
shareware and very small foot print. K9 requires broadcast to be active on your
subnet. Tardis itself is a full blown ntp implementation.
see http://www.kaska.demon.co.uk/
BTW good documentation in html format in /usr/doc/xntp* if the pacakage is
installed. More thatn I ever wanted to know.
Hope this helps
Bret
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