On Friday, August 12, 2011 09:38:54 AM Nils Kassube did opine:
> gene heskett wrote:
> > On Friday, August 12, 2011 04:20:45 AM Nils Kassube did opine:
> > > gene heskett wrote:
> > > > Just one comment: It says it is starting the NTP SERVER... Here
> > > > I always thought ntpd was a client... Picky picky.
> > >
> > > Well, ntpd is client _and_ server.
> >
> > With precious little docs on how to go about setting it up as a
> > server, the net result being that every machine on my local network
> > is pestering pool.ntp.org, whereas it should be only the router,
> > dd-wrt on a stripped x86 box, and the machines on my local net
> > should be using the router. Is it really as simple as pointing the
> > individual machines ntpd's at the router's local address via either
> > IP or hostname in the /etc/hosts file?
>
> There is a package "ntp-doc" which includes the file
> "/usr/share/doc/ntp-doc/html/ntpd.html". It is quite simple to change
> the ntpd behaviour, though. In /etc/ntp.conf you have several lines
> starting with "server". Those are the servers that ntpd uses. You can
> simply delete them all and insert a single line
>
> server 192.168.1.1
>
> where 192.168.1.1 would be the address of your router. Of course you
> might as well use the hostname.
>
>
> Nils
Less lookup lag if I just used the address, and the restart was happy.
That made an entry in the messages log that the file had been adjusted, but
so far, the subdir /var/log/ntpstats is empty. Ahh, ntpstats had a # in
front of it, now enabled for a few hours. Or until I remember enabling it.
I hate to admit it, but forgetting such details is a definite possibility,
and getting worse as the decades roll by. ;-)
I remembered there was a query util, so I looked it up, and an 'ntpq -p'
now returns:
root@shop:/var/log/ntpstats# ntpq -p (watch word wrap)
remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset
jitter
================================================== ============================
router.coyote.d .INIT. 16 u - 64 0 0.000 0.000
0.000
Does that look normal? Not according to the ntpq docs, the 16 is a zero &
means not usable. Therefore my router isn't 'serving', and I can't find a
place in its gui to enable the broadcast at x.x.x.255. Sigh. I can do
that to this machine and make it the server, so at best I would still have
2 machines pestering pool.ntp.org, but that beats 5 or 6 when everything is
running. I think I can figure this out, so I'll send this now.
Thanks & Cheers Nils, gene
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