Ntp server used

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I’ve configured a local ntp server which all my systems and iot sync with. Setting is done via dhcp option. Does Fedora observe this dhcp seting and how can I check?

This seems to be about a serving time only.

ntpq > peers shows a bunch of unrelated ntp servers
ntpdate show localhost as a stratum 2
and

timedatectl show-timesync
Command requires systemd-timesyncd.service, but it is not available: Could not activate remote peer ‘org.freedesktop.timesync1’: activation request failed: unknown unit

Fedora shouldn’t be using org.freedesktop.timesncl

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Googeling didn’t help here. But deepseek helpfully suggested

chronyc sources -v
chronyc tracking

and this did give me:

  .-- Source mode  '^' = server, '=' = peer, '#' = local clock.
 / .- Source state '*' = current best, '+' = combined, '-' = not combined,
| /             'x' = may be in error, '~' = too variable, '?' = unusable.
||                                                 .- xxxx [ yyyy ] +/- zzzz
||      Reachability register (octal) -.           |  xxxx = adjusted offset,
||      Log2(Polling interval) --.      |          |  yyyy = measured offset,
||                                \     |          |  zzzz = estimated error.
||                                 |    |           \
MS Name/IP address         Stratum Poll Reach LastRx Last sample               
===============================================================================
^* _gateway                      2   6   377     3  +3305ns[  +17us] +/-   45ms
Reference ID    : C0A86F1E (_gateway)
Stratum         : 3
Ref time (UTC)  : Tue Dec 30 19:00:03 2025
System time     : 0.000024044 seconds fast of NTP time
Last offset     : +0.000013920 seconds
RMS offset      : 0.000959061 seconds
Frequency       : 12.840 ppm fast
Residual freq   : +0.000 ppm
Skew            : 0.074 ppm
Root delay      : 0.019297287 seconds
Root dispersion : 0.023072829 seconds
Update interval : 64.3 seconds
Leap status     : Normal

Which seems alright but for the name _gateway Not a host I know but it seems to have my local ntp server ip address so that is fine

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_gateway is a name that systemd-resolved creates for the default router.