[gentoo-user] ntp seems a bit flaky

[gentoo-user] ntp seems a bit flaky

[Andrew Lowe]

Hi all,
	I seem to have a bit of a problem with ntp and am hoping someone here 
can steer me in the direction of a fix.

	I have one of your typical home setups, linux server doing firewall, 
samba, ntp, etc etc. with a couple of M$ workstations/laptops as 
clients. On boot on the M$ machines I have a small utility, abouttime, 
that queries the linux server for the time and subsequenly sets it. Now 
this is where my problem lays. The linux box is returning the 32 bit 
epoch, the time in 2036 when the time is going to roll over due to the 
timer being a 32 bit int. The M$ machines regard this as rubbish and 
ignore it and subsequently poll the next ntp server, which is my ISP's. 
The ISP returns a proper time and the local machines time gets set. From 
this I can deduce that the M$ machines, for once, are not playing up.

	Does anyone have any ideas as to why the linux box has recently started 
doing this? It has worked fine in the past. If I do a "date" on the 
linux box, I get a time that is about right, so the linux box's clock 
isn't stuffed.

	I'm stumped, any thoughts greatly appreciated.

	Regards,
		Andrew Lowe
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