[ntp:questions] UK - NPL timeservers dead?

David Lord snews at lordynet.org
Wed Apr 21 22:00:59 UTC 2010


Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Hi--
> 
> On Apr 21, 2010, at 11:26 AM, geep wrote:
>> I'm in the UK and synch my home PC with timeservers at the National 
>> Physical Laboratory.
>> Until today - seems that their timeservers have gone down.
>> Anybody else noticed this, or is it just me?
>> These seem dead: ntp1.npl.co.uk ntp2.npl.co.uk
> 
> I'm getting valid time from them here:
> 
> % ntpdate -qv ntp1.npl.co.uk
> 21 Apr 15:24:19 ntpdate[34063]: ntpdate 4.2.4p5-a Tue Jan 12 18:52:20 EST 2010 (1)
> server 139.143.5.30, stratum 2, offset -0.000363, delay 0.13669
> 21 Apr 15:24:19 ntpdate[34063]: adjust time server 139.143.5.30 offset -0.000363 sec
> 
> % ntpdate -qv ntp2.npl.co.uk
> 21 Apr 15:24:22 ntpdate[34064]: ntpdate 4.2.4p5-a Tue Jan 12 18:52:20 EST 2010 (1)
> server 139.143.5.31, stratum 2, offset -0.001513, delay 0.13443
> 21 Apr 15:24:22 ntpdate[34064]: adjust time server 139.143.5.31 offset -0.001513 sec
> 
> (However, they do seem to be filtering out non-standard NTP packets, so ntpq queries are being dropped.)
> 

It's working here now, previously ntpdate didn't get any reply.


David




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