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Chapter 6 NTP Service 81
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:
1 Open System Preferences.
2 Click Date & Time.
3 Select the Network Time tab.
4 Select “Set Date & Time automatically.”
5 Select and delete the text in the field rather than use the pop-up menu.
6 Enter the host name of your time server.
Your host name can be either a domain name (like time.example.com) or an IP address.
7 Quit 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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