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Loosing Time Sync on WAN

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Brianc2k

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Jan 12, 2000
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We are running 6 Novell servers on our WAN. The Admin server is set up as the primary time source. Secondary is another server. Daily we loose time sync which does not seem to be a big problem. It always resync's itself after 300 or 400 polling loops. But we have problems with our Border server.

Border server locks up about once every two weeks. It is almost like a buffer is filling up and then the system locks. The first thing we did was remove all inappropriate activities from the Border server such as Backup, etc. We take one backup and the only thing the server does from there is quarterback Internet communications outside our WAN. This did not help.

Our contracted installation consultant (if you want to refer to them as such - I feel they learned as they worked on our cluster of servers) informs us the time sync error is cosmetic. But I am not so sure.

We do not want to go outside our LAN for a master time reference. We need to be able to designate a primary server as master time keeper. Any ideas on what I can check next for lost time sync? I would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks.

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Couple things,

Make sure you have the latest and greates BM35c patch I believe, that should prevent Border from locking up. Second, if you are running into problems with time-sync, I would look into setting up wan manager, especially if you have 5.x running on both ends. This way you can control time synch.

To make life easier, I would set up 1 singe reference, and 2 primary's at each local. This way if time synch is dealyed, the primary's will negotiate the time without the loss.

You can go onto Novells support.novell.com and do a search on timesynch and you will find the info on how to configure time sources.

Mark [sig]<p>Mark C. Greenwood, CNE<br><a href=mailto:m_jgreenwood@yahoo.com>m_jgreenwood@yahoo.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>CNE 4.11 and CNE 5 certified. BS Degree in MIS. Working in the industry for 8 years. <br>
I work with NT servers, NDS for NT as well.<br>
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