Re: [gentoo-user] NTP problem

["Anthony E. Caudel" <acaudel@gt.rr.com>]

Brandon Enright wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 01:32 -0600, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
> 
>>My system was off about 10 days and when I turned it back on, I began
>>getting these messages in my logwatch:
>>
>>"Time Reset
>>   time stepped -0.133773
>>   time stepped -0.662954
>>   time stepped +0.271164
>>   time stepped +0.461200
>>   time stepped -0.787647
>><snip>
>>
>> Time Reset 25 times (total: -1.239782 s  average: -0.049591 s)
>>
>> **Unmatched Entries**
>> synchronized to 80.35.31.228, stratum 3
>> synchronized to 80.35.31.228, stratum 4
>><snip>
>> synchronized to 80.35.31.228, stratum 4
>> synchronized to 80.35.31.228, stratum 3
>> Listening on interface wildcard, 0.0.0.0#123
>> Listening on interface eth0, 192.168.1.100#123
>> Listening on interface lo, 127.0.0.1#123
>> kernel time sync status 0040"
>>
>>I rebooted thinking it needed to stabilize but it still gets them. I
>>have ntp-client and ntpd both in the "default" runlevel.
>>
>>This seems like an awful high number of resets.  Much more than I used
>>to get.
>>
>>Tony
> 
> 
> 
> Those are some pretty big jumps.  What does "ntpq -c peers" and "ntpq -c
> rv" output?  Also, what are the first few lines (the restrict entries)
> of your ntp.conf?
> 
> Brandon
> 
ntpq -c peers:

  remote         refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset jitter
==============================================================================
*ntp3.usv.ro     .PPS.      1 u   70 1024  377  203.080    7.338   1.485

ntpq -rv:

assID=0 status=06a4 leap_none, sync_ntp, 10 events, event_peer/strat_chg,
version="ntpd 4.2.0a@1.1190-r Thu Dec  8 09:35:31 CST 2005 (1)"?,
processor="i686", system="Linux/2.6.15-gentoo-r1", leap=00, stratum=2,
precision=-20, rootdelay=203.080, rootdispersion=34.319, peer=35268,
refid=80.96.120.249,
reftime=c7a69e5a.a3227d02  Wed, Feb 22 2006  2:24:58.637, poll=10,
clock=0xc7a6a0b6.78a5bd94, state=4, offset=7.338, frequency=35.514,
noise=2.162, jitter=0.891, stability=64.582

ntp.conf:

restrict default nomodify nopeer
restrict 127.0.0.1

Tony
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