NTP not starting up correctly
I generally set up the local clock, but put it to a *WAY* lower stratum, usually stratum 10. That way, *anything* that I can connect to will be considered superior to the local clock.
Happily, that ultimately feeds back to set the local clock, so that if I have some temporary network outage, the local clock *can* do some good, and let NTP keep running during the outage...
I have finally managed to mount a share on a 2k3 server but it is behaving very odly. When I ls the contents at the mountpoint I get a logical set of directories, then...
Are you SURE it never connects? Of course it does - the Hayes command set is...
Yeah, you'll need to have some kind of list of servers.
- It is usually a good idea to put pool.ntp.org on the list. That does a round robin access to a pool of NTP servers.
- You could do a traceroute to some place far away, and grab the first few hosts you hit, likely within your ISP's infrastructure, and try them; it is common for Cisco routers to run NTP, and they will Definitely will be "nearby on the network."
- There may be some favored local servers you know of, either inside local network or outside... -- "Many companies that have made themselves dependent on the equipment of a certain major manufacturer (and in doing so have sold their soul to the devil) will collapse under the sheer weight of the unmastered complexity of their data processing systems." -- Edsger W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5