[ntp:questions] NTP not syncing

Antonio Marcheselli puppa at me.la
Sun Nov 3 10:30:48 UTC 2013


>> Same server, same network, what happened??
>
> Ntpd is intended to run continuously, here I've seen uptimes
> of +200 days. Older releases of ntpd don't behave at all well
> if repeatedly restarted so above method is same as I use when
> restarting after an outage, especially if the battery backed
> RTC is not keeping good time during the outage.

The clock is synced to an NTP server at boot using NTPDATE, before ntpd 
starts.

Today drift is 60 and offsets are around 8. Looks good.

Thanks
Antonio



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