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From: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.time.ntp
Subject: Re: xntpdc fails on Sun
Keywords: ntp services
Message-ID: <28166EB1.10666@orion.oac.uci.edu>
Date: 25 Apr 91 05:52:49 GMT
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Organization: University of California, Irvine
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In article <1260@faatcrl.UUCP> warb@faatcrl.UUCP (Dan Warburton) writes:
>I am bringing up xntpd on an isolated network containing a Sun 
>SparcStation 1+ running SunOS 4.1.1. xntpd is up and running with a local
>clock. When I try to use xntpdc it fails with xntpdc: ntp/udp: unknown service.
>
>Now I have modified the /etc/services file as follows:
>ntp             123/udp                         # Network Time Protocol
>Beliving that ntp sould be a udp protocall. I see xntpdc doing:
>
> server_entry = getservbyname("ntp", "udp");

If your system is using NIS (YP), you need to change the services file
on the NIS master and remake the NIS maps (the local /etc/services is
not consulted after booting the system).  To find which system is the
NIS master, type 'ypcat ypservers'.  One of those systems is the
master.  


Mike