[ntp:questions] My ntpd stopped working

Danny Mayer mayer at ntp.isc.org
Mon Sep 24 12:39:15 UTC 2007


rasmus wrote:
> On Sep 20, 3:30 pm, Steve Kostecke <koste... at ntp.org> wrote:
>> Is it possible that your PPPoE connection "shuts down" when it is idle?
>> Perhaps a keep-alive would help.
> 
> I tried to set up a looping ntpdate -u yesterday morning but that has
> not seemed to help :/ My ISPs support forum is silent about this, I'm
> considering giving them a call.
> 
> Regards,
>   Rasmus

First of all you cannot run ntpdate at the same time as ntpd. Also if
ntpdate doesn't work even when ntpd is not working you have a firewall
problem. What is the output of ntpdate?

Danny



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