ntpd as broadcastclient - not working?

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Mon Aug 30 17:03:26 PDT 2004


At 07:13 PM 8/30/2004, W. D. wrote:
>30 Aug 21:50:05 ntpd[88]: logging to file /var/log/ntpd.log
>30 Aug 21:50:05 ntpd[88]: ntpd 4.2.0a at 1.1219-o Mon Aug 30 14:14:07 GMT
>2004 (1)
>30 Aug 21:50:05 ntpd[88]: precision = 4.191 usec
>30 Aug 21:50:05 ntpd[88]: Listening on interface dc0,
>fe80:1::2a0:ccff:fe50:e7c7#123
>30 Aug 21:50:05 ntpd[88]: Listening on interface dc0, 192.168.2.177#123
>30 Aug 21:50:05 ntpd[88]: Listening on interface lo0, ::1#123
>30 Aug 21:50:05 ntpd[88]: Listening on interface lo0, fe80:3::1#123
>30 Aug 21:50:05 ntpd[88]: Listening on interface lo0, 127.0.0.1#123
>30 Aug 21:50:05 ntpd[88]: kernel time sync status 2040
>30 Aug 21:50:05 ntpd[88]: frequency initialized 0.000 PPM from
>/etc/ntp.drift
>30 Aug 21:50:05 ntpd[88]: Unable to listen for broadcasts, no broadcast
>interfaces available

What does ifconfig -a tell you?

Danny

>The Windows computer generating the Tardis NTP broadcasts is
>at IP address: 192.168.2.119.  Does anyone have any idea
>why it's not picking up these broadcasts?

Also, that's not a broadcast address as I recall.

>Somewhere in here I also changed the CMOS Real Time Clock to
>UTC, and reconfigured for my local time in /stand/sysinstall
>
>Now what?  How do I get the program to 'hear' the
>broadcasts?

See above.

Danny



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