NTP Reference?

[Robert Comber]

Hello,

Can anyone recommend any good online references for NTP. I want to learn more about how it works and how to configure it for good performance.

Thanks,
Bob

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

Actually you have a rather good one much closer than you know. Look in /usr/share/doc/NTP_Primer.txt; it's quite good. Also, there is quite a bit of errata in /etc/ntp.conf as delivered from HP.

[Pete Randall]

Bob,

I came up with this through a search of docs.hp.com:

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90685/B2355-90685_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90685/00/00/63-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90685/00/00/63-toc.html&searchterms=ntp&queryid=20030625-132434


Pete

[Michael Steele_2]

NTP is overseen by this federal gov't. agency: NIST. National Institute for Standards and Time.

http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/

Good Stuff.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Bob:

Chapter-7 of "Installing and Administering Internet Services" provides a good discussion of 'ntpd' implementation for HP-UX.

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90685/B2355-90685.html

For a list of external sources from which to derive correct time, and for other, general information see here:

http://www.ntp.org/index.html

Regards!

...JRF...

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi

http://www.ntp.org/

Lots of good info there.


Paula

[Steven E. Protter]

http://developer.novell.com/research/appnotes/1999/july/03/02.htm
http://bizforums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x299844f56197d711abdc0090277a778c,00.html
http://www.ntp-systems.com/product_faq.asp

Hope these help.

SEP

[Jim Mallett]

Here's what I came up with:
http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90685/B2355-90685_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90685/00/00/63-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90685/00/00/63-toc.html&searchterms=Time%7cProtocol%7cNetwork&queryid=20030625-132641

The HP Certified book has a chapter devoted to it, but I guess that doesn't help seeing it's not online.

Jim

[S.K. Chan]

You've got the reference to HP doc, that's good for basic "know-how". For more technical details and its various implementation this may help ..
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1305.html

[Caesar_3]

Hello!

Some on docs.hp.com
Also check:
http://olympus.het.brown.edu/doc/ntp-doc/html/hints/hpux

http://www.they.com/doc/ntp-doc/html/hints/hpux

Caesar