I received two responses that unfortunately related to possible version
differences.
This was not my case.
I ended up using the Solaris servers to do the ntpdate to the Stratum 1
servers and
cron'ing the Tru64 servers to perform an "rdate -s" .
This seems to be satisfactory.
It ends up that the courteous way to time sync to external Stratum 1 or 2
NTP servers is
to only use one of your servers on a given LAN to poll and internally sync
to that server.
One should never poll outside NTP servers with all of their servers.
-W
-----Original Message-----
From: Sweatt, Wayne [mailto:sweatt_at_dps.state.nm.us]
<mailto:[mailto:sweatt_at_dps.state.nm.us]>
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 4:42 PM
To: Tru64-UNIX-Managers
Subject: NTP Problem - No suitable server found
Dear TRUGurus,
When trying to set my Tru64 4.0F server using ntpdate with external servers,
I get the response "no server suitable for synchronization found". I can
ping the NTP Servers just fine. They're in my hosts file and DNS registered.
My other Sun Solaris servers on the same LAN here work fine. They route to
the NTP servers
through the same path.
What could be the problem?
I guess I could just use the Suns for NTP and then just set my Tru64 servers
from them with ntpdate ( haven't tried it yet) or rdate, but I didn't want
to do that. I want to periodically adjust to the three stratum 1 standards
available out there.
Thanks.
wayne
Received on Thu Jun 07 2001 - 15:40:45 NZST