Hardy as a NTP Server for Lan

[Derek Broughton]

chris wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Markus Schönhaber
> <ubuntu-users at list-post.mks-mail.de> wrote:
>> How long did you wait after restarting ntpd? Syncing generally takes a
>> couple of minutes.
>> Otherwise I'm out of ideas. My ntp.conf looks like yours (apart from the
>> server and the option you added) and ntpd syncs without problems.
>>
> 
> 
> That did the trick.  I waited for like an hour and then looked and
> viola...
... 
> localhost: stratum 2, offset 0.019031, synch distance 0.992595
> time.nist.gov: stratum 1, offset 0.000000, synch distance 0.002650, refid
> 'ACTS'
> 
> Windows clients happy too.
> 

Not to throw coldwater on your success, but shouldn't you be querying a
stratum 2 time server yourself, and running your server at stratum 3 or
lower?
-- 
derek