Well, in the man page for xntpd on HP-UX 11.11, I read that:-
Quote:
The peer command specifies that the local server is to operate in
symmetric active mode with the remote server. In this mode, the local
server can be synchronized to the remote server and, in addition, the
remote server can be synchronized by the local server. This is useful
in a network of servers where, depending on various failure scenarios,
either the local or remote server may be the better source of time.
This, to me, means that you are agreeing the time between yourself and server_B, i.e. local server can affect server_B. I would expect you can code more than one server statement. On AIX I have:-
Code:
broadcastclient
driftfile /etc/ntp.drift
tracefile /etc/ntp.trace
server u-dc-01.*****.co.uk version 3 prefer
server u-dc-02.*****.co.uk version 3 prefer
and that seems to work quite well.
There are other things to consider if your NTP server goes pop and you use this server for other things, such as DNS. You would need an alternate and a suitable timeout setting up.
I hope that this helps,
Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK
We have one NTP server on the Intranet which has an external connection through the firewall to multiple time servers on the Internet. This is not perfect but it works. For resilience we should have at least two more time servers such that the NTP algorithms can determine the correct time.
One basic point about using NTP is that you should run your server clock in UTC and ensure that the correct $TZ (timezone) variable is set for any processes run by users or background processes.
Hello
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