[I have two not-really-related questions about
timed
,
so I'm asking them separately. The other one is
"[timed
not always working?](https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/364892) ".]
I just upgraded to High Sierra (yeah, I'm a bit behind the
times), and I just discovered this new system time daemon,
timed
, which is evidently new with 10.13.
Unlike my previous Macs, this machine does not seem to be acting
as an NTP server -- that is, it is not accepting incoming NTP
connections on port 123, even from the local host.
I can see that it uses the configuration file /etc/ntp.conf
,
and presumably if I put the right lines in there it might do
what I want, but I have no way of knowing whether it accepts all
the same directives there as ntpd
does, so I'm afraid it may be
a bit of a crapshoot. Anybody know of an "official" or sanctioned
way? Right now ntp.conf
consists of the single line
server time.apple.com.
(At the moment I only care about accepting NTP connections from
this machine, but eventually I may also want to accept them from
the local network.)
P.S. I was thinking there was a chance this might have something to do with firewall settings
("do/don't accept incoming connections"), although now I'm doubting that. At @nohillside's suggestion, I tried fetching time on it (hitting it on NTP port 123) from an outside machine, and that failed, too. (I've confirmed that I *can* fetch time by making NTP connections from this machine to other NTP servers, such as time.apple.com
.)
Asked by Steve Summit
(165 rep)
Jul 19, 2019, 04:55 PM
Last activity: Jul 19, 2019, 05:32 PM
Last activity: Jul 19, 2019, 05:32 PM