[ntp:questions] Synchronizing contrived time

William Unruh unruh at invalid.ca
Sat Mar 15 17:21:42 UTC 2014


On 2014-03-15, Amit Dor-Shifer <amit.dor.shifer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks to Per for spotting my usage error. ntpd seems to be working fine.
> Still client refuses to sync from the server, with the same error message
> as before:
> 192.168.1.11: Server dropped: strata too high
> server 192.168.1.11, port 123
> stratum 16, precision -23, leap 11, trust 000

Did you read the error message? It says "strata to high" You are running
your server at too high a statum. 

>
> While this has been an educating & worthwhile attempt, I think I'll drop it
> for now. Initially, I had in-mind that getting a client to sync clocks with
> a server would be a more off-the-bat experience.

Well, it definitely seems to have been off the bat and into the foul
ball zone. 

> Thanks for the help so-far.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Per Hedeland <per at hedeland.org> wrote:
>
>> In article
>> <CAAznTxHZOPyu_dwCPvMye-WpaCMnMXZx3WK+rkgDPNuL0LwCxw at mail.gmail.com>
>> Amit Dor-Shifer <amit.dor.shifer at gmail.com> writes:
>> >
>> >$ cat ~/test_ntpd/ntp.conf
>> >server 127.127.1.0 minpoll 4 maxpoll 4
>>
>> >$ sudo ntpd -g -f ~/test_ntpd/ntp.conf
>>                 ^^^
>>
>> >Mar 11 19:54:06  ntpd[31081]: format error frequency file
>> >/home/amit/test_ntpd/ntp.conf
>>
>> $ man ntpd
>> ...
>>      ntpd [-aAbDdgLmnPqx] [-c conffile] [-f driftfile] [-k keyfile]
>>           [-l logfile] [-p pidfile] [-r broadcastdelay] [-s statsdir] [-t
>> key]
>>           [-v variable] [-V variable]
>>
>> I.e. you need '-c' to give an alternate config file.
>>
>> --Per Hedeland
>>
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