[ntp:questions] Linux client ntp

Riccardo Castellani castellani.riccardo at tiscali.it
Sun Apr 22 10:04:35 UTC 2007


Why should I have to use iburst option in server command to speed up ?
when is the "iburst" option necessary ?
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Steve Kostecke 
  Newsgroups: comp.protocols.time.ntp
  To: questions at lists.ntp.isc.org 
  Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 1:33 PM
  Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] Linux client ntp


  On 2007-04-16, castellani.riccardo at tiscali.it wrote:

  >Steve Kostecke said:
  >
  >>>Ricardo Castellani said:
  >>>
  >>> IPv4: restrict x.y.z.w [nomodify notrap nopeer noquery]
  >>
  >><snip>
  >>
  >>> If added "nomodify" option(as I told you in previous message) I
  >>> think it would not be permitted to ntpd to use time information
  >>> (sent from specified "x.y.z.w" server) to set local clock.
  >>
  >> No, 'nomodify' has nothing to do with time service.
  >
  > Steve thanks for your full explanation. So, if I have in my client's
  > ntp.conf:
  >
  > restrict default nomodify notrap nopeer noquery
  > server A
  > server B
  >
  > I'm able to accept time from both server A and server B ? it's OK ?

  Yes. None of those access control options will prevent time service.
  All of these options are documented at
  http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/accopt.html#cmd

  If you will be running ntpd as a daemon you should append 'iburst' to
  each of your server lines. This will speed up your initial sync from
  ~5 minutes to ~20 seconds. Please remember that 'iburst' has no effect
  'ntpd -gq'.

  -- 
  Steve Kostecke <kostecke at ntp.isc.org>
  NTP Public Services Project - http://ntp.isc.org/

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