[ntp:questions] Flash 400 on all peers; can't get ntpd to be happy

Richard B. Gilbert rgilbert88 at comcast.net
Tue Mar 8 14:54:38 UTC 2011


On 3/8/2011 4:16 AM, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 11:22:34AM +0000, David Woolley wrote:
>> Ralph wrote:
>>
>>> filtoffset= 67671.8 66534.8 65931.3 65118.0 63317.3 63029.5 62216.4 58156.6,
>>
>> Your frequency error is way outside any reasonable bounds, which is
>> reflecting in a very high jitter, which is probably the ultimate
>> cause of rejection.
>>
>> This system is not savable by NTP.
>
> This seems to be a common problem and with virtual machines getting
> everywhere it will probably only get worse. I'm wondering how hard it
> would be for ntpd to detect that the clock frequency is outside the
> acceptable range and write a "your clock is broken" message to syslog?
>

NTP should be able to detect the problem without to much trouble.

Fixing the problem will most likely prove to be more difficult.

The political issues are likely to be most difficult of all.  I wouldn't 
want to be the one to persuade Dave Mills to permit the necessary 
modifications to the code.




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