[ntp:questions] systems won't synchronize no matter what

Rob nomail at example.com
Sun Oct 24 17:57:53 UTC 2010


Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org> wrote:
> I've 3 machines that would not synchronize to NTP servers no matter 
> what. They always end up stratum 10. They are regular Dell servers, 
> kernel 2.6.18-128.7.1.0.1.el5, ntp 4.2.2p1-7.el5
>
> I tried to sync up to local NTP servers, I tried the US pool, I cleaned 
> up the drift file, nothing works, even though the initial offset is 
> really small (ntpdate seems to work).

You do need to do more cleanup of your config file!

>
> Config file:
>
> server 10.10.16.65 iburst
> server 10.10.16.64 iburst
> server 127.127.1.0 # local clock
remove that line ^^^^^
> fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10
remove that line ^^^^^
> driftfile /etc/ntp/drift
> restrict 127.0.0.0 mask 255.0.0.0
> restrict 192.168.3.0 mask 255.255.255.0 nomodify notrap
remove that line ^^^^^
> restrict default ignore
remove that line ^^^^^




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