I'm running all 10.5.8 servers and trying to get NTP straightened
out. All my boxes point to my OD Master, but all of the clocks
are out of sync by a minute or two here or there. I'd like to get
them in sync for obvious reasons.
My OD Master server is using time.apple.com, and my replicas and
other servers are using my OD Master as their time server, with
client computers using the replicas and other servers as their
time server.
I'm seeing in the system log file "no server suitable for
synchronization found". This is happening on my OD Master, my
servers, and my clients. Clients are a mix of 10.5.6 to 10.5.8.
The firewall service is not blocking ntp. Any thoughts on things
to check out on this to get it working. I don't want my clock
skews getting too far out of hand since that will make Kerberos
work less than ideal.
I have been dealing with cock drift for a long time [sic]. I do
recall I had to open the router to in and out for ntp, which of
course make sense.
I have a bunch of servers running 10.5 which can not use an external
NTP server, and one 10.6 server which can use the external NTP
server, so I'm thinking it isn't so much the config of the router
needing to allow the UDP 123 port inbound.
Some more, laptop at home 10.5:
$ntpq -p
remote refid st t when poll reach delay
offset jitter
=
=
=
=
=
=
========================================================================
*time4.apple.com 17.254.0.49 2 u 35 64 377 15.345
-2.912 1.503
Using the same time.apple.com IP, one is polling very 64 seconds, the
server is every 1024, the only difference here is ppc over intel.
Maybe the poll is dynamic based on how much the offset drifts around.
I have a much larger offset on the laptop, so it has determined it
need to poll more often.
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