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