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From: mcneill@eplrx7.uucp (Keith McNeill)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.time.ntp
Subject: isolated network & xntpd
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Date: 1 Apr 91 16:33:12 GMT
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I have an isolated (e.g. not hooked up to the internet) network that I would
like to synchronize the time on.  We do not have a radio clock.

Over the long easter weekend I set up our 4 Sun disk servers with xntpd to
attempt to synchronize their clocks.  They all started out (Friday) with
fairly uniform time (couple of seconds off each other).  By Monday their
clocks drifted so that the servers were several minutes off each other.

My setup:

in my rc.local file I have 

tickadj -Aqs; xntpd

on one of my servers /etc/ntp.conf looks like:

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peer 138.196.252.10	# zip
peer 138.196.252.42	# pix
peer 138.196.80.2	# mds

driftfile /etc/ntp.drift
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Question: Do I want to set dosynctodr = 0, as tickadj -s will do?

Am I missing something?

Thanks,

Keith
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