Make sure you have told you firewall to allow port 123 for both TCP & UDP.
I had the same behavior until I did that.

dcm

On 1/9/06, matthew.garman@gmail.com <matthew.garman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> I've been struggling with ntp for some time now.  I've followed the
> gentoo wiki HOWTO for ntp:
>
>     http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_MythTV#NTP
>
> As well as many other sources over the months.  Basically, ntpq
> shows that I am not synchronized to any peers:
>
> # ntpq -p
>      remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay
> offset  jitter
>
> ==============================================================================
> Time4.Stupi.SE  .PPS.            1 u   37   64  377  124.516  -11202.
> 1225.91
> thesimonet.org  .TRUE.           1 u   38   64  377  109.329  -11213.
> 1232.51
> fin.rshell.net  192.114.62.249   3 u   32   64  377  205.910  -9569.1
> 1521.31
> titan.cais.rnp. 32.233.177.224   2 u   44   64  377  165.240  -11991.
> 1915.26
>
> That first space in the peers list is a tally mark that, according to
> the ntpq documentation at:
>
>     http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/ntpq.html
>
> Means that those peers are all rejected: "The peer is discarded as
> unreachable, synchronized to this server (synch loop) or outrageous
> synchronization distance."
>
> Likewise:
> # ntpq -c rv | grep stratum
> processor="i686", system="Linux/2.6.14-gentoo-r5", leap=11, stratum=16,
>
> I should be at stratum 3, not 16 (which means I'm not synchronized
> to anything).
>
> My /etc/ntp.conf:
>
> tinker panic 0
> minpoll 4
> maxpoll 10
> server pool.ntp.org
> server 0.pool.ntp.org
> server 1.pool.ntp.org
> server 2.pool.ntp.org
> driftfile       /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift
> logfile /var/log/ntp.log
> restrict default nomodify nopeer
> restrict 127.0.0.1
>
>
> Nothing special there!  To further clarify, I actually have this
> problem on *two* machines.  FWIW, I've also tried the OpenBSD
> OpenNTP package, but haven't had any luck with that either (except
> on my OpenBSD machine!).  Using OpenNTP on these two machines
> *seemed* to work fine, but the computers still gained time too
> quickly.
>
> I've been fighting this for what seems like forever.  If anyone has
> any insight or thoughts, I'm happy to hear it!
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
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