[AG-TECH] FYI - Beacons need correct time

Andrew Daviel advax at triumf.ca
Mon Aug 11 18:43:15 CDT 2003


FYI beacon clients sending to the AG server
http://beaconserver.accessgrid.org:9999/delay.html
should be getting correct time e.g. with NTP in order to display correct 
delay stats.

Several beacons are running open misconfigured ntp (I can do an ntptrace 
to them but they do not correctly trace back to a stratum 1 server) and 
others are either more "secure" (e.g. RedHat 9 defaults) or aren't running 
it at all.

Xntpd on Linux won't work out of the box; it needs timeservers configured 
or the multicast client enabled.

-- 
Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada
Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376
security at triumf.ca




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