[ntp:questions] NTP/Linux Machine Issue

Harlan Stenn stenn at ntp.org
Tue Apr 26 19:24:08 UTC 2011


David wrote:
> > Dear Support,
> 
> This is a newsgroup, there is no "support" as such.
> 
> > I have a NTP server, and configure clients on it.
> > I am facing an issue that the offset is too much high so there a 
> > difference in
> > the time between the client and the server, it is reaching 1 hour 
> > sometimes.
> >
> > NTP client version:
> >
> > ntpq 4.2.0a at 1.1190-r<mailto:4.2.0a at 1.1190-r> Thu Oct  5 04:11:36 EDT 
> > 2006 (1)
> 
> Your client software is five years out of date, I suggest you update it.

That date seems to be the *build* date - 4.2.0 was reeased in October of
'03, so it's really 8 years old.

Since 4.2.0 was release we have produced 3 full releases, 2.2, 2.4, and
2.6.

I am expecting 2.8 to be released this summer.

> >     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset 
> > jitter
> >
> > ===========================================================================
> ===
> >
> > 10.200.37.37    85.91.1.180      3 u   35   64   17    0.898  1194.28 
> > 147604.
> >
> > *LOCAL(0)        LOCAL(0)        10 l   32   64   17    0.000    0.000 
> > 0.004
> >
> > Hope you can help me in that
> >
> > Yousif Qaddoura
> 
> 
> In your ntd.conf, remove the local clock, and add in three pool server 
> lines such as:
> 
> ________________________________
> server 0.pool.ntp.org iburst
> server 1.pool.ntp.org iburst
> server 2.pool.ntp.org iburst
> ________________________________
> 

> If your alder NTP complains about the "iburst", remove it.
> 
> Be sure that your PC is fairly near correct time in the BIOS, and that the 
> time zone is correct.  Retry NTP.
> 
> Please note that I run FreeBSD and Windows, not Linux, so the above advice 
> may not be correct in its detail.

What you wrote looks good to me.

H



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