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From: aad@nwnet.net (Anthony Talltree)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: xntpd not working on 2.1 BSDI BSD/OS 2.1 i386
Date: 10 Dec 1996 23:34:49 -0800
Organization: NorthWestNet, Bellevue, WA, USA, Earth
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>Am currently trying to get xntpd-3.5f or 5.86-8[5|6] to work on this machine.

I'm just using the provided binaries in /usr/sbin.  I couldn't get 3.5f
to work out of the box.


>the machine itself never gets beyond stratum 16, which indicates that its
>not synchronized at all.

Did you let it run for a few days first?  Did you run ntpdate -d to
see if responses are making it back from the outside?