SCO Unix and ntpdate

[Brett I. Holcomb]

 have been asked by IT to help them with a Unix system they have.  It's SCO 
Unix (uname -a gives UNIX_SV,  4.2mp 2.1.3 i686 x86at).

They are trying to use ntpdate to synch with a Win2K server that is acting 
as a ntp server.   For testing we ran ntpdate servername and get the 
message "No servers available for synchronization".

1.  The Win2K server is in the hosts file and can be pinged.
2.  DNS does work - I set it up and tested it.

What does this message mean - does it mean that it found the server but 
didn't like something about it or can it not find the server?  I also tried 
the -o option for ntpdate.

In the process of troubleshooting we thought there might be problems with 
the network setup so we tried the following.  This machine is no a network 
with a mask of 255.255.252.0 as is the server it's trying to get to.

1.  First I tried the admin tools to set the netmask by selecting other and 
putting in the mask.  When the system was restarted it wouldn't talk to 
anything and trying to change the route settings via the admin tool gave a 
"there's an error - see your administrator" - I was the administrator - let 
me in to fix it! -but using ifconfig to change the netmask and doing a 
down, then up on the interface allowed us to connect.  However, the changes 
made by ifconfig did not stick during reboots.  What's going on here?

2.  We tried to add the route -n default nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn 1 for the default 
gate way.  The route command didn't give an error but nothing changed in 
the routing table as listed by netstat -r.

3.  The route command will give "To fix" errors on many of the commands 
such as add or delete listed in the man page.  What is it trying to tell 
me?  As far as I could tell the syntax was correct.

Thanks for any help.

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Brett I. Holcomb
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