[ntp:questions] xntpd hanging

Jason Rabel jason at extremeoverclocking.com
Mon Sep 10 02:40:48 UTC 2007


Which version of NTP are you using? Any output from the debug or syslog?



> Hi -
> 
> On one of our AIX 5.3 boxes, xntpd isn't very happy. If I run
> 
> xntpd -l /home/cg5/a.a -dddddddddd
> 
> it lasts about 10 seconds before hanging and not responding to any
requests.
> 
> (If I just run it normally, it lasts a few minutes before it does the
same).
> 
> My ntp.conf is very simple:
> 
> server uk.pool.ntp.org
> server uk.pool.ntp.org
> server uk.pool.ntp.org
> driftfile /etc/ntp.drift
> tracefile /etc/ntp.trace
> 
> which worked well for a couple of years.
> 
> Any ideas what's going on?




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