On Aug 7 at 12:43am, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
On Saturday 07 August 2004 12:36 am, C Hamel wrote:
The IPs in the 1st two lines of ntp.conf are 127.127.1.0. Is that correct, or should they be 127.0.0.1?
It should be 127.0.0.1 (the loopback device ip, e.g. localhsot)...but why do you have that ip there? There should be the ip address of the NTP servers your machine is going to connect to... or are you serving some ntp clients?
The address 127.127.1.0 is indeed correct. If one reads the beginning lines of the default /etc/ntp.conf, there is an explanation: ## Radio and modem clocks by convention have addresses in the ## form 127.127.t.u, where t is the clock type and u is a unit ## number in the range 0-3. ## ## Most of these clocks require support in the form of a ## serial port or special bus peripheral. The particular ## device is normally specified by adding a soft link ## /dev/device-u to the particular hardware device involved, ## where u correspond to the unit number above. ## ## Generic DCF77 clock on serial port (Conrad DCF77) ## Address: 127.127.8.u ## Serial Port: /dev/refclock-u [...] ## ## Undisciplined Local Clock. This is a fake driver intended for backup ## and when no outside source of synchronized time is available. ## server 127.127.1.0 # local clock (LCL) fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10 # LCL is unsynchronized If you want to reference a real ntp server, you must include the IP address of each as indicated in the remainder of the config file (tho' you can also include the dns name): ## ## Outside source of synchronized time ## ## server xx.xx.xx.xx # IP address of server server tock.cs.unlv.edu #### for example Jim Cunning