[Bigsister-general] Re: ntp problem - SOLVED but still some questions

[Martin Fuzzey <suppressed>]

Replying to my own post :)

The problem was that my ntp server was only allowing query connections 
from localhost and not my internal network (default Debian configuration)
So ntptrace localhost worked but not ntptrace my.machine.name

However servers further up the chain still time out sometimes 
(presumably because I'm using pool.ntp.org and some allow queries and 
not others). Bigsister doesn't seem to care as long as the monitored 
host gives a valid reply.

BUT:
in this case what's the point of doing a ntptrace rather than a ntpdate?
To me it only seems to add extra load to all the servers.
But then I don't know much about NTP...

Martin




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