Thomas Maier-Komor wrote:
>
> ohaya wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a very small network consisting of 4 Solaris servers (Solaris1,
> > ..., Solaris4) and want to configure NTP so that Solaris2, Solaris3, and
> > Solaris4 synch their time to Solaris1.
> >
> > This is an isolated network (no outside connection available), so from
> > what I've read, I think that Solaris1 should be synched to itself?
> >
> > We tried to set this up yesterday, and got the xnptd running on all 4
> > machines, but when we tested, it didn't seem that anything was happening
> > (we ran snoops on port 123 on several of the machines).
> >
> > We tested by first using ntpdate on Solaris2, 3, and 4 to get them
> > synched to Solaris1, then starting the xnptd on those machines, then
> > setting the system clock on Solaris1 back about 10 minutes, and then
> > watching the snoop output for awhile.
> >
> > Can someone provide what the basic ntp.conf file should look like for
> > Solaris1 and for the other Solaris machines (Solaris2, 3, and 4)?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jim
>
> did you see the files
> /etc/inet/ntp.client
> /etc/inet/ntp.server
> that can be used as a starting point for setting up such a
> configuration?
>
> Tom


Tom,

The sample files were on a couple of the systems that I installed from
the Sun media, but several of the systems, including Solaris1, were
jumpstarted a long time ago by someone else who I haven't been able to
identify. Those latter systems didn't have the sample files, plus, I
guess that I thought that we wanted something simple and wasn't sure we
wanted to configure the server to multicast/broadcast as I think was in
the ntp.server sample file, so we tried to strip things down to the
barest minimum just to try to get things working.

Jim