Question about internal 'private' servers

[Dave Hall]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 4:10 AM Hal Murray <halmurray at sonic.net> wrote:

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> > Regarding the tos minclock config line:  I checked one of my systems
> > that's still running Debian 11 and regular NTP.  This system was quite
> > happy with only two servers.  So my original two-maaster-server
> > configuration was OK (but not great) until I upgraded to NTPSEC.  This is
> > not a complaint - just me understanding how the problem crept in on me.
>
> Please check the old config file.  Does it have the minsane line?
>
> The ntp.conf file on that Debian 11 system does not contain any tos
lines.

Although I see that the tos 'command' did exist in that version of NTP.  It
is entirely likely that this ntp.conf file could be traced back to Debian 5
- pre-2012   SInce it was 'working' it was copied from system to system
over many years and retained across Debian version upgrades.

With the switch to NTPSEC, the config file location changed from
/etc/ntp.conf to /etc/ntpsec/ntp.conf.  At that point I blindly merged this
old config with the distribution default ntp.conf during a system
upgrade, perhaps because ntpsec did not like the old config - I dont
recall.  I did mean to go back and analyse the changes, but I never did.

Lesson learned.


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