correct way to set timezone & clock/date?

[Steven A. DuChene]

Hmm, in the debug output from the ntp server startup on my gateway system I see
the following:

addto_syslog: Cannot find existing interface for address 148.167.132.200
addto_syslog: Cannot find existing interface for address 66.27.60.10

among the other messages there. The addresses 148.167.132.200 and 66.27.60.10
corresponds to the two ntp servers I have set in my ntp.conf file on that system.

So it seems that the ntpd daemon does indeed start up but it still is not able to contact
either of the ntp servers I have configured.

NUTS!

Just a guess but I am thinking this is a Cox network thing. That is just a guess though.
Is anyone else here on a Cox cable modem able to sync to a external ntp server?
--
Steve

-----Original Message-----
>From: "Steven A. DuChene" <linux-clusters at mindspring.com>
>Sent: Aug 25, 2009 4:37 PM
>To: Main PLUG discussion list <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>Subject: Re: correct way to set timezone & clock/date?
>
>OK, I may be wrong again. If I start ntpd by hand on my gateway/firewall system
>it does indeed start and I am able to sync to that system from the other client
>systems on my network but when I do a ntpq on it and type "peers" the only
>thing listed there is the LOCAL (0) one. Unless I am mistaken it should also
>list the two other ntp servers I have configured in the ntp.conf file. Right?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>>From: "Steven A. DuChene" <linux-clusters at mindspring.com>
>>Sent: Aug 25, 2009 4:28 PM
>>To: Main PLUG discussion list <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>>Subject: Re: correct way to set timezone & clock/date?
>>
>>I mis-spoke below. It is not the cable modem thata has a time display but rather the cable TV box
>>that has nothing to do with my network.
>>
>>I have discovered something else. If I start ntpd by hand on my external gateway server
>>(the SuSE-10.1 system), it seems to work just fine. It seems to synchronize with the
>>ntp servers and provides replies to my local network systems.
>>
>>It seems that is is just the actual ntpdate command to those external servers that does not
>>function and hangs everytime I try it. My guess is if I commented out the calls to ntpdate
>>in the ntp init script everything would function just fine.
>>
>>Why would ntpd connect and work fine but ntpdate will not function?
>>--
>>Steve
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: "Steven A. DuChene" <linux-clusters at mindspring.com>
>>>Sent: Aug 25, 2009 3:50 PM
>>>To: Alex Dean <alex at crackpot.org>, Main PLUG discussion list <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>>>Subject: Re: correct way to set timezone & clock/date?
>>>
>>>My Cox cable modem has a time display that is set by their network and the time on my system
>>>is set to under a minute different than that display. Besides if I cannot get any sort of reply
>>>from the ntp servers how can I tell what time they are synced to?
>>>--
>>>Steve
>>>
>>
>>
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