[ntp:questions] ntp clients out of sync with server

Steve Kostecke kostecke at ntp.org
Tue Oct 28 19:33:24 UTC 2008


On 2008-10-28, naihong at gmail.com <naihong at gmail.com> wrote:

> ... time island ...

[snip]

> I select the orphan mode. After the server and clients start up. At
> first, the clents can sync to server's clock. But after 1 day, all 3
> clients begin to sync to its local clock, not the server.
>
> The output of ntpq -p is,
>
> remote        refid    st t when poll reach delay offset jitter
> ===============================================================
> 10.200.98.51	127.0.0.1 5 u  105  256  377  0.299 -1.886  0.591
> *LOCAL(0)     .LOCL.   12 l   23   64  377  0.000  0.000  0.001
>
> The ntp.conf on server is,
> driftfile "C:\Program Files\NTP\etc\ntp.drift"
> tos orphan 5
>
> The ntp.conf on all 3 clients is(except the drift file location),
>
> driftfile "C:\Program Files (x86)\NTP\etc\ntp.drift"
> server 10.200.98.51 iburst
> server 127.127.1.0
> fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 12

The "clients" should not be using the Undisciplined Local Clock.

> logconfig = all
> logfile "C:\Program Files (x86)\NTP\etc\ntp.log"
> statsdir "C:\Program Files (x86)\NTP\etc\log\"
> statistics loopstats peerstats clockstats
> filegen loopstats file loopstats type day enable
> filegen peerstats file peerstats type day enable
> filegen clockstats file clockstats type day enable
>
> At beginning, the configuration file on client has only first 2 lines,
> the lines from server 127.127.1.0 were added for debugging purpose.

That is a misuse of the Undisciplined Local Clock.

> The same thing happened two years ago, on different computer hardware.
> At that time,I select undiscipline clock on server, and want 5 clients
> sync to server. But after days running, the clients out of sync with
> server, chasing their own clock. So I have to disable ntpd, and add
> ntpdate to crond to sync the time by force.
>
> Could any one give me some clues on this issue.

Don't use the Undisciplined Local Clock on any ntpd which does not serve
time to others.

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




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