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From: "Michael C. Berch" <mcb@postmodern.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: xntp/ntpdate woes
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 00:53:44 -0800
Organization: Postmodern Consulting, California USA
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I've never gotten either xntp or ntpdate to work for me.  In the 
2.0 /etc/rc file, xntp gets invoked if there's a config file present.
I added the names of our ISP's NTP servers to the file, following the 
syntax in the xntp man entry... no dice.  The clock never gets set.

So, I gave up on xntp and decided to try ntpdate -- I put this line
in /etc/rc.local:

/usr/sbin/ntpdate -bs ntp3-sf.tlg.net ntp1-sf.tlg.net ntp2-sf.tlg.net

and also invoke ntpdate via cron every hour.  All I get, though, is the
error message

ntpdate: no server suitable for synchronization 

and, sigh, the clock is never reset.  The NTP servers are known to
be good (I have an NTP client on my Mac, on the same network, and it
gets the time from those servers just fine) and do not require
authentication, etc.  

This is a BSDI 2.0 system, 486DX66, 32MB, on an ethernet connected to
our ISP via 56K frame relay. 

Any ideas?

-- 
Michael C. Berch
mcb@postmodern.com