[gentoo-user] ntpd problem: randomly refusing/dropping client requests

[gentoo-user] ntpd problem: randomly refusing/dropping client requests

[Enrico Weigelt]

Hi folks,

I've got an problem w/ ntpd: syncing w/ ntpdate against it 
fails from time to time. Sometimes just for a few minutes, 
sometimes longer.

I know it will call itself stratum 16 (which is dropped by ntpdate) 
if it hasn't synchronized to a proper reference clock yet, so it 
will take some time after startup until its usable.

But why are there such problems once ntp has been sychronized ?


thx
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Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd problem: randomly refusing/dropping client requests

[Richard Fish]

On 7/5/06, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I've got an problem w/ ntpd: syncing w/ ntpdate against it
> fails from time to time. Sometimes just for a few minutes,
> sometimes longer.
>
> I know it will call itself stratum 16 (which is dropped by ntpdate)
> if it hasn't synchronized to a proper reference clock yet, so it
> will take some time after startup until its usable.
>
> But why are there such problems once ntp has been sychronized ?

I'm not an ntpd expert by any means, but maybe you could post your config files?

Also, have you read http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/debug.html?

-Richard
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