[ntp:questions] Re: Servers just doen't work (after following the troubleshooting page)

Tom Smith smith at cag.zko.hp.com
Thu Sep 29 04:07:51 UTC 2005


Danny Mayer wrote:
> Per Hedeland wrote:
> 
>>
>> Well, if you've not munged the output *selectively* here, I believe it
>> shows that you've run into the bug that Danny mentioned recently: The
>> client sends a query to ntp2.<mydomain>, but gets the response from
>> server2.<mydomain>, i.e. presumably a different IP address on the same
>> host. The client will not (and should not) be interested in responses
>> coming from what it sees as "someone else". The same effect will apply
>> to the intra-server/peer queries.
>>
> 
> No, that's not it at all. If ntpq -p is showing the two servers listed
> (there should always be more than two, BTW) then it's receiving packets
> from those servers. The fact that they are both showing stratum 16 on
> the scoreboard indicates that neither are able to serve a valid time
> because they themselves are not synchronized.

 From the original post:

[root at server1 /]# ntpq -p
      remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==============================================================================
+ntp-0.gw.uiuc.e truechimer.cso.  2 -   55 1024  377   26.019    1.585   2.253
*ntp3.tamu.edu   ntp1.tamu.edu    2 -   20 1024  377   44.892    1.253   1.445
+cisco1-mhk.kans navobs1.wustl.e  2 -   57 1024  377   47.829    3.943   2.297
  ntp2.<mydomain> 0.0.0.0         16 u    -  256    0    0.000    0.000 4000.00


[root at server2 /]# ntpq -p
      remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==============================================================================
*ntp-1.gw.uiuc.e truechimer.cso.  2 u  146 1024  377   96.335  -166.48  64.986
+ntp3.tamu.edu   ntp1.tamu.edu    2 u  268 1024  377   68.509  -129.28  30.480
+cisco1-mhk.kans navobs1.wustl.e  2 u  229 1024  377   44.214  -126.14  33.813
  ntp1.<mydomain> 0.0.0.0         16 u    -  256    0    0.000    0.000 4000.00

Looks synchronized to me.




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