[NTLUG:Discuss] NTP syncs to wrong server

[Michael Barnes]

As it turned out, I found another, previously unknown or heard of by
me, file /etc/sysconfig/ntp.  It seems there is a place in there to
put an initial server to check on start up.  I guess the idea was to
get your initial time from a stratum 1 source, then watch lower
stratum sources for normal conditions.

Commented that line out and good to go.

Thanks for your comments.

Michael


On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Sally Welch <skwelchit at gmail.com> wrote:
> How about restarting ntpd to reread configs?
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>  On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> wrote:
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>  > Michael Barnes wrote:
>  > > I had a machine on an internal network serving as ntp server for the
>  > > rest of the network.  Big overhaul in network and that machine bit the
>  > > dust.  On another server, I go into /etc/ntp.conf and change server
>  > > address from old one to new one.  However, when it syncs up, it says
>  > > it is getting its time from "tick.usno.navy.mil".  That server isn't
>  > > anywhere in the /etc/ntp.conf file.  Everything is static, no DHCP
>  > > involved.  Nothing in the init files.  Running SUSE 10.0.
>  > >
>  > > Where else could ntp be getting its server info from?
>  >
>  > Not sure but run the daemon inside of strace and you can
>  > find out where it's getting the information from.
>  >