[ntp:questions] NTP not syncing
David Woolley
david at ex.djwhome.demon.invalid
Thu Dec 5 18:58:11 UTC 2013
On 05/12/13 14:24, mike cook wrote:
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>> The problem for ntp is that ntp takes a long time to recover from a bad
>> drift value.
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> This seems to have been an issue since I started using ntp, more than 10 years ago. I am surprised that it is not fixed.
If you know the drift file is unreliable, you should delete it. ntpd
will then perform a frequency calibration before entering the main loop.
Otherwise it starts on the basis that the drift value is good and it
is seeing measurement errors.
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