Configuring xntpd on Solaris 9

From: Andreas Höschler (ahoesch@smartsoft.de)
Date: Wed Sep 29 2004 - 10:05:25 EDT


Hi all,

I was just trying to setup a Solaris 9 box as a time server for a LAN
with a bunch of Macs. On Solaris 8 I usually do

*****************************************************
        touch /var/ntp/ntp.drift
        cp /etc/inet/ntp.server /etc/inet/ntp.conf
        pico /etc/inet/ntp.conf

Modify the following lines:

        server 131.188.3.220
        #fudge 127.127.XType.0 stratum 0

Then start it.

        /etc/init.d/xntpd start
******************************************************

This used to work for me. Now with Solaris 9 it does not. The clients
gives me "ntpdate[16816]: no server suitable for synchronization
found". I then snooped the ip traffic on the server and got the
following.

bash-2.05# snoop | grep -i ntp
Using device /dev/dmfe0 (promiscuous mode)
jupiter.smartsoft-hl.de -> merkur NTP client (Wed Sep 29
16:01:33 2004)
       merkur -> jupiter.smartsoft-hl.de NTP server (Wed Sep 29
16:01:33 2004)
jupiter.smartsoft-hl.de -> merkur NTP client (Wed Sep 29
16:01:33 2004)
       merkur -> jupiter.smartsoft-hl.de NTP server (Wed Sep 29
16:01:33 2004)
jupiter.smartsoft-hl.de -> merkur NTP client (Wed Sep 29
16:01:33 2004)
       merkur -> jupiter.smartsoft-hl.de NTP server (Wed Sep 29
16:01:33 2004)
jupiter.smartsoft-hl.de -> merkur NTP client (Wed Sep 29
16:01:33 2004)
       merkur -> jupiter.smartsoft-hl.de NTP server (Wed Sep 29
16:01:33 2004)

Here merkur is the Solaris 9 box and jupiter is the Mac. Any idea what
goes wrong here?

Thanks a lot!

Regards,

   Andreas
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