NTP client not synchronizing from a private NTP server

Question

We have a private network that we wish to implement an NTP server inside. Both the NTP server and client have been configure like this. On the server running ntpstat gives me:

synchronised to local net at stratum 11 
   time correct to within 11 ms
   polling server every 1024 s

and running ntpq -p gives me:

     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==============================================================================
*LOCAL(0)        .LOCL.          10 l   55   64  377    0.000    0.000   0.001

Unfortunately on a client PC, running ntpstat gives me:

unsynchronised
  time server re-starting
   polling server every 64 s

and running ntpq -p used to give me Name or service not known but after adding an entry to /etc/hosts with the server's IP and name it gives me:

     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==============================================================================
 SERVER-IS2      .INIT.          16 u   49   64   16    0.214    2.679   0.789

Too bad even after this the time is still not synchronized and ntpstat keeps giving me the same message.

The network is completely isolated that we don't want to use external NTP server that our server gets its time from.

What I tried so far:

1. Re-install the ntp package.
2. Restart the ntpdservice.
3. Rebooting.
4. chkconfig ntpd on.

Any help is appreciated!

Answer 1

Alright folks here is what happened:

The server has this configuration:

restrict default kod nomodify notrap nopeer noquery
restrict -6 default kod nomodify notrap nopeer noquery
logfile /var/log/ntp.log

server 127.127.1.0 #local clock
fudge  127.127.1.0 stratum 10

driftfile /var/lib/ntp/drift

restrict 127.0.0.1
restrict 10.2.0.0 mask 255.255.0.0 nomodify notrap

Actually this config file is a help from a friend who did some research on this. Perhaps some feedback would be good.

On the client side nothing should be done since the NTP settings is distributed with DHCP (option ntp-servers). Although I noticed one thing that If you added prefer next to the server address in /etc/ntp.conf it will speed the process of synchronizing the client with the server.

Now all we had to do is chkconfig ntpd on and NTP is ready to go, although the client takes about 2 - 3 minutes to fully synchronize with the server that when ntpstat gives you synchronized (?).