[ntp:questions] Trouble creating symmetric connection
Richard B. gilbert
rgilbert88 at comcast.net
Wed Mar 7 21:06:50 UTC 2007
Ronan Flood wrote:
> Henning Makholm <henning at makholm.net> wrote:
>
>
>>>Better to make both symmetric-active:
>>
>>> ntpdc -c 'addpeer B.B.B.B' A.A.A.A
>>> ntpdc -c 'addpeer A.A.A.A' B.B.B.B
>>
>>I though the point of "addpeer" was that a single association could
>>transfer time in any direction (and I still have trouble reading
>>the documentation any other way). If I need to make two associations,
>>then why not just do
>>
>> ntpdc -c 'addserver B.B.B.B' A.A.A.A
>> ntpcd -c 'addserver A.A.A.A' B.B.B.B
>>
<snip>
>
> Side comment: why are you doing all the config via ntpdc rather
> than putting it into the ntp.conf file?
>
Perhaps because he does not want to shut down ntpd and restart. Why do
even a warm restart if you don't have to?
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