Hey LugNuts,

A while back, I asked for input on NTP.  I had to go away from that 
task, but it has now returned.  At this point, I'm stuck and lost.  So....

Is anyone synching their network using ntp?  I have my ws  synched, (our 
stratum 2?) I have a cron job entered that keeps it in sync.  My problem 
is I can't get the other Lin boxes (stratum 3?) to sync from this one.

I've tried using ntpdate -q to the ip and name of this box, to no avail.

I recieve the following:

ntpdate -q 192.168.10.55
server 192.168.10.55, stratum 0, offset 0.000000, delay 0.00000
23 Jan 12:58:48 ntpdate[3690]: no server suitable for synchronization found

the ntp.conf file for our stratum 2 (name jupiter, IP 192.168.10.55)

server 128.9.176.30 # US CA timekeeper.isi.edu
server 192.5.41.40  # US DC tick.usno.navy.mil
server	127.127.1.0	# local clock
fudge	127.127.1.0 stratum 10	
driftfile /etc/ntp/drift
multicastclient			# listen on default 224.0.1.1
broadcastdelay	0.008
authenticate no

ntpdate -q 128.9.176.30 returns:

server 128.9.176.30, stratum 1, offset 0.026086, delay 0.08362
23 Jan 13:00:30 ntpdate[16432]: adjust time server 128.9.176.30 offset 
0.026086 sec

which I believe is pretty good?  offset of 0, is pretty close right?

ntp.conf file for one of the proposed stratum 3's (name appserv, IP 
192.168.10.33

server 192.168.10.55    # jupiter, our stratum 2
server	127.127.1.0	# local clock
fudge	127.127.1.0 stratum 10	
driftfile /etc/ntp/drift
multicastclient			# listen on default 224.0.1.1
broadcastdelay	0.008
authenticate no

any idea why I'm getting the above error?  any idea why it thinks 
jupiter is a stratum 0?

if I use ntpdate -q 128.9.176.30 on appserv it returns:

server 128.9.176.30, stratum 1, offset -211.413466, delay 0.08354
23 Jan 13:07:36 ntpdate[4314]: step time server 128.9.176.30 offset 
-211.413466 sec

an offset of -211 is almost 4 minutes right?  that's the difference 
between these two boxes...

I've also tried using SNTS found here : 
http://www.redshift.com/~yramin/atp/snts/

I thought that one would be easy.... I have sntsd running on jupiter.  I 
have snts running on appserv....  these don't appear to be working at 
all, as the boxes are still 4 minutes appart, and the SNTS stuff has 
been running for over 30 minutes.

jupiter is RH 7.0 with ntp-4.0.99k-15
appserv is RH 7.1 with ntp-4.0.99k-15

I don't know what else I could tell you....

I know this is long, thanks for your time,

E