[ntp:questions] UK - NPL timeservers dead?

geep geep_at at boursomail.com
Wed Apr 21 22:09:05 UTC 2010


On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:00:59 +0000, David Lord wrote:

> 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
Thanks all. It's all again OK now.
I'll remember the UK pool if NPL goes AWOL again.
Cheers,
Peter




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