On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 06:08, Michael Mansour wrote: > I have an FC2 server which was an ntp client (syncing > its time from an FC1 server - which is the primary ntp > server in my environment), but I decided to add a > second NTP server to my environment. > > So I setup the FC2 machine above to use some public > external sources and reconfigure all my ntp clients to > use both the primary FC1 ntp server and this new FC2 > ntp server. > > Although my FC2 machine doesn't have trouble talking > to the external ntp sources, none of my FC1 clients > can use the FC2 ntp source. > > I've trouble-shooted this extensively but cannot > figure out why there's an issue. > > All FC systems are fully patched. iptables is disabled > on all FC machines. > > ntpq -p shows this: > > fc2server 0.0.0.0 16 u - 64 0 0.000 > 0.000 4000.00 > > ntpdate fails with: > > 21 Oct 15:05:44 ntpdate[28007]: no server suitable for > synchronization found > > I'm at a loss to understand why. In your ntp.conf file on the FC2 server will be a line allowing access to your server for your clients. The example given in the file is: restrict 192.168.1.0 mask 255.255.255.0 notrust nomodify notrap You need to remove the "notrust" restriction for your clients. See Bug #127150 http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=127150 Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
