[CentOS] ntp server

[Bowie Bailey]

Jerry Geis wrote:
>> You can get an assortment of devices that receive time signals from 
>> satellites to act as good authoritative time sources on your private 
>> network if you are willing to spend some money.  If you just want to 
>> fake it, I think the trick is to lower the stratum number in the 'fudge' 
>> setting in ntpd.conf.
>>   
>>     
> Les
>
> I have tried dropping the stratum to 2,1 and 0 - did notice any effect
> Of course doing service ntpd restart each time.
>   

Try setting it like this:

   fudge   127.127.1.0 stratum 10
   server 127.127.1.0 prefer

And make sure that there are no other "server" lines in the config.  I
haven't tried this myself, but if you don't have any other servers
listed, then it shouldn't waste any time waiting on them.

-- 
Bowie