syncing FreeBSD server with NTP is simpler than you may think

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:55:24 +0000

After setting up a config file for the NTP on every server, i figured out that a stock settings just work.

so adding:

ntpd_enable="YES"
ntpdate_enable="YES"

to the /etc/rc.conf just does the trick (and starting services if not rebooting the server).

After some moments of running the ntp client you can check it with:

# ntpq -c peers
remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter
==============================================================================
*ntp2.Housing.Be 128.32.206.55 2 u 16 64 377 189.371 -14.785 5.513
mighty.poclabs. 169.229.70.64 3 u 28 64 377 132.913 -14.411 5.034
+vps1.cobryce.co 64.235.98.66 3 u 16 64 377 180.600 -22.410 5.258

where servers marked with * are the selected server and + are the candidates for ntp sync.

Ntp on Simon Žekar — unix, communications, stupidities

syncing FreeBSD server with NTP is simpler than you may think