<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 4:10 AM Hal Murray <<a href="mailto:halmurray@sonic.net">halmurray@sonic.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
> Regarding the tos minclock config line: I checked one of my systems<br>
> that's still running Debian 11 and regular NTP. This system was quite<br>
> happy with only two servers. So my original two-maaster-server<br>
> configuration was OK (but not great) until I upgraded to NTPSEC. This is<br>
> not a complaint - just me understanding how the problem crept in on me. <br>
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Please check the old config file. Does it have the minsane line?<br>
<br></blockquote><div>The ntp.conf file on that Debian 11 system does not contain any tos lines. </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>Lesson learned. </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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