[ntp:questions] ntpdate works only with -d option

William Sheffler willsheffler at gmail.com
Thu Feb 22 10:49:22 UTC 2007


Hi.

I'm having trouble getting ntp set up on my network. If I run

    ntpdate -d 0.north-america.pool.ntp.org

I get lots of very proper looking output like this:

server 216.52.237.153, port 123
stratum 2, precision -16, leap 00, trust 000
refid [216.52.237.153], delay 0.05374, dispersion 0.00017
transmitted 4, in filter 4
reference time:    c987ef72.c8fb381a  Thu, Feb 22 2007  2:31:14.785
originate timestamp: c987f29a.e403144f  Thu, Feb 22 2007  2:44:42.890
transmit timestamp:  c987f384.8d159c49  Thu, Feb 22 2007  2:48:36.551
filter delay:  0.05443  0.05374  0.05426  0.05534
         0.00000  0.00000  0.00000  0.00000
filter offset: -233.675 -233.675 -233.675 -233.676
         0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
delay 0.05374, dispersion 0.00017
offset -233.675759

Unfortunately, if I run the same as above without -d (trying to actually set
my system time):

    ntpdate 0.north-america.pool.ntp.org

I get an error:

    22 Feb 02:50:46 ntpdate[7808]: no server suitable for synchronization
found

I'd really like to get ntp working on my machines but I'm at a total loss to
explain this! Can anyone help?

Thanks!

-Will Sheffler
Baker Lab
Dept. Genome Sciences
University of Washington



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