Solaris

im trying to set up ntp on Solaris 10.. I have two ntp servers, which i put in /etc/inet/ntp.conf as

server ntp-server1
server ntp-server2

driftfile /var/ntp/ntp.drift
statsdir /var/ntp/ntpstats/
filegen peerstats file peerstats type day enable
filegen loopstats file loopstats type day enable
filegen clockstats file clockstats type day enable

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i did sudo svcadm enable ntp

online 14:15:02 svc:/network/ntp:default

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so what i want is for the sytem date to be thier local time, but issuing 'date' tells ms:

ossserver[user1]/var/ntp/ntpstats% date
Tue Feb 26 13:36:54 EST 2008

which is US time. Their server is not in the US.

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ntpq -p gives:

remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset disp
==============================================================================
*ntp-server1 145.24.129.6 3 u 38 64 377 1.34 -1.887 0.17
ntp-server2 0.0.0.0 16 u 230 1024 0 0.00 0.000 16000.0

And,

ntptrace gives:

ossserver[user1]/var/ntp/ntpstats% ntptrace
localhost: stratum 4, offset 0.000032, synch distance 0.15501
ntp-server1: stratum 3, offset -0.002185, synch distance 0.14456
145.24.129.6: *Timeout*

Which I believe is telling me that the master server where their ntp servers are getting time from are not reachable. Is this correct? What else can I use to verify?

a couple of things

running UNIX date command
your systems Timezone has nothing to do with NTP.
you need to properly set your timezone in either
/etc/TIMEZONE
/etc/default/init

NTP has no concept of a timezone, etc. reference
ntpq -c readvar |grep clock
clock=cb6eff48.b71d8000 Tue, Feb 26 2008 16:12:40.715, phase=-34.613,

the clock variable is the systems NTP time, the month, day, year, time, etc is derived from this plus taking your systems timezone setting into account.

your ntptrace might be being blocked, but actually working, not unusual.
from any system you can use nptq -p not only for that system but for any remote system:
example: from any system the following should work.

ntpq -p ntp-server1
ntpq -p ntp-server2
ntpq -c readvar ntp-server1

times from both ntp servers should be very close "+- 20-30 ms". if not something is not functioning correctly.

check these website, might be of some help:
also helpful to setup each of your local ntp servers a peer to the other
in ntp.conf
peer ntp-server1 ## on ntp-server2
peer ntp-server2 ## on ntp-server1