[ntp:questions] xntpd hanging

Clive George clive at xxxx-x.fsnet.co.uk
Mon Sep 10 08:41:48 UTC 2007


"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote in message 
news:46E4AB7A.8030101 at comcast.net...
> Clive George wrote:
>> Hi -
>>
>> On one of our AIX 5.3 boxes, xntpd isn't very happy. If I run
>>
>> xntpd -l /home/cg5/a.a -dddddddddd
>>
>> it lasts about 10 seconds before hanging and not responding to any 
>> requests.
>>
>> (If I just run it normally, it lasts a few minutes before it does the 
>> same).
>>
>> My ntp.conf is very simple:
>>
>> server uk.pool.ntp.org
>> server uk.pool.ntp.org
>> server uk.pool.ntp.org
>> driftfile /etc/ntp.drift
>> tracefile /etc/ntp.trace
>>
>> which worked well for a couple of years.
>>
>> Any ideas what's going on?
>
> How about telling us what changed to make it stop working?

If I knew that, I'd have a rather better idea of what to do about it :-)

I've not changed anything on the ntp side, nor am I aware of any other 
changes which would be relevant.

cheers,
clive 




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