Configuring NTP on Clients
If you have set up a local time server, you can configure your clients to query your time server for getting the network date and time. By default, clients can query Apple’s time server. These instructions allow you to set your clients to query your time server.
To configure NTP on clients:
1Open System Preferences.
2Click Date & Time.
3Select the Network Time tab.
4Select “Set Date & Time automatically.”
5Select and delete the text in the field rather than use the
6Enter the host name of your time server.
Your host name can be either a domain name (like time.example.com) or an IP address.
7Quit System Preferences.
Where to Find More Information
The NTP working group, documentation, and an F.A.Q. for NTP can be found at the website www.ntp.org.
Request For Comment Documents
Request for Comments (RFC) documents provide an overview of a protocol or service and details about how the protocol should behave. If you’re a novice server administrator, you’ll probably find some of the background information in an RFC helpful. If you’re an experienced server administrator, you can find all the technical details about a protocol in its RFC document. You can search for RFC documents by number at the website www.faqs.org/rfcs.
The official specification of NTP version 3 is RFC 1305.
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