[ntp:questions] NTP no internet connection

Unruh unruh-spam at physics.ubc.ca
Sat Feb 9 20:22:46 UTC 2008


flyersix <mhanntest at yahoo.com> writes:

>I have a network that I would like to cordinate the time in without
>exposing it to the internet for NTP servers.

>Could I just setup NTP on one of my internal servers and set the
>clients to go to it for time syncs?  I know the time won't match the
>internet time but my thought is if I only need to change the time on
>the one server and then let the clients all go to it to update their
>time.

>Is this possible?

Yes.
Or if you have Linux, use chrony which is designed to allow you to set the time from your
wristwatch, and use it as the ntpserver for the others using either ntp or
chrony as clients.





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