[ntp:questions] NTP on local networks

Will Shackleford shackle at nist.gov
Wed Aug 1 14:45:31 UTC 2012


I tried setting ophan mode.

on 192.168.0.5  I put

tos orphan 6

at the end of the ntp.conf file

on 192.168.0.4 I ran ntpdate to set the clock

I got this

[shackle at galactica-304 ~]$ sudo ntpdate -d 192.168.0.5
  1 Aug 10:31:02 ntpdate[18776]: ntpdate 4.2.6p3-RC10 at 1.2239-o Thu Nov 
25 16:18:33 UTC 2010 (1)
Looking for host 192.168.0.5 and service ntp
host found : 192.168.0.5
transmit(192.168.0.5)
receive(192.168.0.5)
transmit(192.168.0.5)
receive(192.168.0.5)
transmit(192.168.0.5)
receive(192.168.0.5)
transmit(192.168.0.5)
receive(192.168.0.5)
192.168.0.5: Server dropped: Server has gone too long without sync
server 192.168.0.5, port 123
stratum 6, precision -23, leap 00, trust 000
refid [192.168.0.5], delay 0.02597, dispersion 0.00002
transmitted 4, in filter 4
reference time:    00000000.00000000  Thu, Feb  7 2036  1:28:16.000
originate timestamp: d3c3bca8.ef07b5bb  Wed, Aug  1 2012 10:33:12.933
transmit timestamp:  d3c3bc2c.7c88ab05  Wed, Aug  1 2012 10:31:08.486
filter delay:  0.02597  0.02600  0.02597  0.02605
          0.00000  0.00000  0.00000  0.00000
filter offset: 124.4469 124.4469 124.4469 124.4469
          0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
delay 0.02597, dispersion 0.00002
offset 124.446969

  1 Aug 10:31:08 ntpdate[18776]: no server suitable for synchronization 
found
[shackle at galactica-304 ~]$


It prints the right time and stratum but still stubbornly won't set the 
time.


If I add
server 192.168.0.5

to the ntp.conf on 192.168.0.4 and restart the ntp server on 192.168.0.4

there are no errors logged but I also see no improvement in the offset 
between the two
systems after waiting a few minutes.

-- Will



On 07/31/2012 12:06 PM, unruh wrote:
> One option is to install a gps receiver onto one or more of your
> machines to deliver accurate time to them.
>
> The second option is to look into "orphan" mode, which was designed for
> your situation.
>
> Your problem is probably that you are using more than one of th
> emachines as the "server" and they have gotten out of sync with each
> otehr so that the other machines cannot figure out which is the more
> accurate time. You give no indication of what you have set up so it is
> pretty hard to figure out what is going wrong.
>
> On 2012-07-30, Will Shackleford<shackle at nist.gov>  wrote:
>> We have several computers  with several different operating systems on a
>> local network with no radios and no internet connection.
>> The main goal is to keep them synchronized with each other.
>>
>> One frustration I have had is that clients tend to refuse to connect to
>> servers on the network
>> that are "not good enough". I assume "not good enough" means too high a
>> stratum although the
> stratum does not really matter (unless it is 15 or so) but disagreement
> amongst the servers does matter.
>
>> error messages are not that clear.
> Perhaps if you told us what they were, they would be clearer to some of
> us than to you.
>
>> My current solution is to take a laptop to another room with an internet
>> connection, let it sit for an hour and
>> then bring it back to connect the local network where finally the other
>> computers will accept it and synchronize with it.
>>
>>
>> Questions:
>>
>> How can I configure a client/peer to always accept a server as "good
>> enough" or atleast always accept the server
>> when no other server can be contacted? (please answer for any platform
>> below you can)
>>
>>
>> Fedora 6:
>> Fedora 10:
>> Fedora 14:
>> Ubuntu 11.04:
>> Windows XP:
>>
>>
>> How can I configure a server to always consider itself "good enough" and
>> report that (lie if necessary) so that any badly configured
>> client will still connect?(please answer for any platform below you can)
>>
>>
>> Fedora 6:
>> Fedora 10:
>> Fedora 14:
>> Ubuntu 11.04:
>> Windows XP:
>>
>>
>>
>> Just for my own curiosity, why is just refusing to do what the operator
>> wants the default behavior for clients/peers? Why not always
>> synchronize as well as you can with whichever peers/hosts you can contact?
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