network time settings - was Re: Decrypt Passwords

[Reuben D. Budiardja]

On Wednesday 26 May 2004 09:28 am, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 May 2004 1:57 pm, Hamilton, Andrew wrote:
> > Normally, you would need to modify your ntp.conf file to point to the
> > right server or to make it a server or a peer(which is both a client and
> > a server).  I think by default it uses the machines undisciplined local
> > clock which is really a last resort.  I generally put a few(maybe 3 or 4)
> > servers in my ntp.conf and then let ntp figure out which one to use.  It
> > typically will pick the one with the best response time.  ntpd can be
> > both a client and a server and do both at the same time.  It can also
> > broadcast and multicast for those machines on the same subnet, which is
> > cool because you get less traffic.  Once you put a few servers in there
> > then restart you can do "/usr/sbin/ntpq -p" and get which one it prefers.
> >
> > Drew
>
> Thanks for this Drew,
>
> Do you have an example ntp.conf that I could have a look at.  Also, could
> you explain about the authenticatin and the /etc/ntp/keys file.  Do I need
> to know about this if all I want to do is have one box sync to a remote box
> and then have local boxes sync to that.

All I did when I set that up here was using: redhat-config-time GUI. The first 
box, I put the name of NTP server outside. Then I did the same for the other 
boxen in the LAN, only this time I use the name of the first box in the NTP 
server field.

RDB
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Reuben D. Budiardja
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