[ntp:questions] losing time fast
Fritz Wuehler
fritz at spamexpire-201207.rodent.frell.theremailer.net
Fri Jul 13 18:18:07 UTC 2012
unruh <unruh at invalid.ca> wrote:
> > driftfile /etc/ntp/drift
>
>
> > multicastclient
> > broadcastdelay 0.008
>
> Why do you have these? You are getting your time from the pool, and
> suddenly there is the totally unknown multicast server somewhere that is
> also feeding in time. Try getting rid (comment out) these two lines.
Thanks, as far as I know I have not changed this config from the Slackware
defaults except to add the pools nearest to my location. Slackware configs
are normally good safe defaults. Could be I blew it this time by not
taking the time to understan what was going on.
> > # Don't serve time or stats to anyone else by default (more secure)
> > restrict default noquery nomodify
> > # Trust ourselves. :-)
> > restrict 127.0.0.1
>
> Get rid of this.
Which part?
>
> >
> > I didn't ever use the keys, maybe this could have been the problem?
> >
>
> Nope.
Thank you. Sorry for my prior note. You were indeed quite helpful.
>
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