[ntp:questions] Re: Servers just doen't work (after following the troubleshooting page)
Tom Smith
smith at cag.zko.hp.com
Thu Sep 29 04:07:51 UTC 2005
Danny Mayer wrote:
> Per Hedeland wrote:
>
>>
>> Well, if you've not munged the output *selectively* here, I believe it
>> shows that you've run into the bug that Danny mentioned recently: The
>> client sends a query to ntp2.<mydomain>, but gets the response from
>> server2.<mydomain>, i.e. presumably a different IP address on the same
>> host. The client will not (and should not) be interested in responses
>> coming from what it sees as "someone else". The same effect will apply
>> to the intra-server/peer queries.
>>
>
> No, that's not it at all. If ntpq -p is showing the two servers listed
> (there should always be more than two, BTW) then it's receiving packets
> from those servers. The fact that they are both showing stratum 16 on
> the scoreboard indicates that neither are able to serve a valid time
> because they themselves are not synchronized.
From the original post:
[root at server1 /]# ntpq -p
remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter
==============================================================================
+ntp-0.gw.uiuc.e truechimer.cso. 2 - 55 1024 377 26.019 1.585 2.253
*ntp3.tamu.edu ntp1.tamu.edu 2 - 20 1024 377 44.892 1.253 1.445
+cisco1-mhk.kans navobs1.wustl.e 2 - 57 1024 377 47.829 3.943 2.297
ntp2.<mydomain> 0.0.0.0 16 u - 256 0 0.000 0.000 4000.00
[root at server2 /]# ntpq -p
remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter
==============================================================================
*ntp-1.gw.uiuc.e truechimer.cso. 2 u 146 1024 377 96.335 -166.48 64.986
+ntp3.tamu.edu ntp1.tamu.edu 2 u 268 1024 377 68.509 -129.28 30.480
+cisco1-mhk.kans navobs1.wustl.e 2 u 229 1024 377 44.214 -126.14 33.813
ntp1.<mydomain> 0.0.0.0 16 u - 256 0 0.000 0.000 4000.00
Looks synchronized to me.
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