[ntp:questions] slowly gaining time

[Steve Kostecke]

On 2006-12-22, Jammer <ask.me at mail.com> wrote:

> Jammer wrote:
>
>> The internal clock keeps time. I set only "server localhost"

<snip>

> # ntpq -np
>    remote     refid   st t when poll reach  delay  offset  jitter
>===================================================================
>   127.0.0.1  .INIT.   16 l    - 1024    0   0.000  0.000   4000.00

You've told ntpd to poll (i.e. get the time from) its self. That's not
going to do you any good.

-- 
Steve Kostecke <kostecke at ntp.isc.org>
NTP Public Services Project - http://ntp.isc.org/