[mythtv-users] Fwd: Re: ntp stratum two time servers

[Tom Dexter]

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:06 AM, Rod Smith <mythtv at rodsbooks.com> wrote:
>
> >  Instead of having multiple machines querying an NTP server off your local
>  >  network, I recommend you have one local machine query an external NTP server
>  >  and have the rest of your local machines query your first machine.
>
>  Wow...what am I missing here.  From everything I'm reading I should
>  just be able to add this:
>
>  restrict 192.168.1.0 mask 255.255.255.0 nomodify notrap
>
>  ...in order to allow other machines on my lan (192.168.1 subnet) to
>  synchronize with that server.  Is there something else I'm missing?
>  Here's all I get trying to use ntpdate against it:
>
>   ntpdate mythback
>   1 May 07:00:05 ntpdate[17489]: no server suitable for synchronization found
>
>  What am I missing?
>
>  Tom
>

I just tried:

ntpdate -u -d mythback

...and the error I'm getting is "192.168.1.51: Server dropped: strata too high"

Tom