* ohaya wrote:

> 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).

If you're not seeing any traffic on port 123 then I think ntp isn't
running (or isn't doing anything)

> 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.

But you shouldn't do this! ntp is for dealing with clock drift, it's
not designed to deal with massive changes in time. I can't remember
what happens in cases like this but in at least some cases the clients
will just log something to the effect of `I'm not going to try to fix
that because it's too large an offset' and do nothing.

--tim