NTP Service Installation & Configuration Exercise ===================================================== 1. Intro: The packages to be installed are: * ntp * ntpdate Debian provides 2 ways of installing third party software: i. Binary Packages These are pre-built package that contains the executables, config files, man/info pages, etc for the Debian system and have a distinguished file extension ".deb" ii. Source packages They contain the original unmodified source files in gzipped-compressed tar format. For this class, we will install ntp and ntpdate using packages. ------------------- 2. Installation of ntp and ntpdate using packages: 2.1 Install ntp & ntpdate $ sudo apt-get install ntp 2.2. Once installed, the ntp startup script is placed at /etc/init.d/ . To add ntp to the System Startup $ sudo update-rc.d ntp enable 2.3. To start ntp run $ sudo /etc/init.d/ntp start OR: $ sudo service ntp start Check if the ntp service you have just installed works by issuing the following command $ sudo ntpq -pn ------------------- In this section we will select four (4) machines to be our internal NTP servers and synchronize all the other machines off these four (4) machines. 3. Select four (4) machines to be the internal NTP servers and ensure they are synchronized off stratum 1 or 2 servers on the Internet. 4. All of the other servers should be configured to synchronize their clocks off the four (4) selected Internal NTP servers. 5. Configure the four (4) internal NTP servers to restrict access to only machines in the SSE subnet i.e. 196.200.219.0/24 6. Configure the other ntp clients/servers to prevent them from answering ntp queries.