[ntp:questions] ntp not updating the time
Chuck Swiger
cswiger at mac.com
Wed Apr 14 00:47:42 UTC 2010
On Apr 13, 2010, at 4:13 PM, Marc Fromm wrote:
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> The server loses 1 second per minute.
> I've been checking it since I manually updated the time and after 2 hours it is 2 minutes and 1 second behind.
adjtime() used by ntpd and others typically won't correct more than about 2 seconds per hour, so, barring extreme measures, your hardware is too busted to keep reliable time. Sorry. :-/
> ntpq -p produces the following:
> remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter
> ==============================================================================
> 131.107.13.100 .ACTS. 1 u 858 1024 374 4.431 62588.8 21305.0
> *LOCAL(0) .LOCL. 10 l 16 64 377 0.000 0.000 0.001
>
> My ntp.conf file is all defaults except for the time server entry on line 13.
If you add a server line, then you also need to add a restrict line like:
restrict time-nw.nist.gov
...otherwise it lacks permission to change your clock, because of the paranoid "restrict default" line.
Regards,
--
-Chuck
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