[ntp:questions] Meinberg NTP Software--Time Accuracy

Martin Burnicki martin.burnicki at meinberg.de
Tue Jun 23 07:29:39 UTC 2009


David J Taylor wrote:
> W. eWatson wrote:
> []
>> I set drift.conf as above for Win2000.
>>
>>   server 0.us.pool.ntp.org preempt iburst
>>
>> but do not believe the PC clock is in synch with accurate time. After
>> 30-60 seconds they looked 3 sec apart.
> 
> The Meinberg package is based in NTP 4.2.4, and mau not support the
> "preempt" keyword.  Try the following in your ntp.conf file:
> 
>    server 0.us.pool.ntp.org iburst
> 
>    server 1.us.pool.ntp.org iburst
> 
>    server 2.us.pool.ntp.org iburst
> 
>    server 3.us.pool.ntp.org iburst

Whether pool servers are being configured or a dedicated USNO server, is a
question of policy, but should not make a difference for this problem.

However, having a look at the contents of the OP's ntp.conf file shows an
entry:

# Use specific NTP servers
server tick.usno.nav.mil iburst

If you look at the spelling then you see there's a typo:

tick.usno.nav.mil  can not be resolved, this should read:
tick.usno.navy.mil

So the name of the upstream server is simply invalid, and thus ntpd can not
sync to it. And, if you'd misspell the names of the pool servers, the pool
server would not work, either.

This also explains why "ntpq -p" prints "No association ID's returned" (as
reported by the OP in an earlier post), and I'm sure if the OP had done as
I earlier suggested and had had a look into the Windows application event
log he would have seen an appropriate error message which leads into the
right direction.

Martin
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Martin Burnicki

Meinberg Funkuhren
Bad Pyrmont
Germany




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