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HI,

i hope i'm in the good themes....

so i have a problem with NTPD

if have five server
one master of time
four slave of the master but server for the client
78 client station slave of the slave ;-_

my first server the master one synchronise is time with nobody

#ntp.conf

server 127.0.0.1
fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10

....

ok like that all work...
the 4 slave take time on the master
and the 78 client take time on the slave

but recently i have change the conf of the master like that

#ntp.conf

server canon.inria.fr
fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10

restart the daemon ok

the problem :

the master synchronise seem to be ok
the 4 slave synchronise seem to be ok
but the 78 client can't synchronise to the 4 slave why ?

maybe you can't help me ?
thank a lot...

REM : it's strange, my master server become a strate 2 the four a strate 3 is it normal ?

Let me get this straight. You originally setup your Master server as the primary system to get the time from with "server 127.0.0.1". Then had the 4 slave systems get time from that.

Now, you changed the Master server to be an intermediary to an outside server "server canon.inria.fr". And your now saying that everything is fine except for the clients time is not keeping up with the new configuration.

Your stratum configuration is normal. Because you are connecting the former master to a new stratum 1 server. It is now a stratum 2 and the 4 are now stratum 3.

You probably need to make the former master and 4 slaves into PEERS so that they will be on the same level and the clients will become stratum 3. But, only have the clients get their time from the 4 systems that were slaves.


Here is a link that I think will explain a great deal.

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/f...0020528-125842