Nigel Henry wrote: > On Thursday 19 April 2007 05:12, Danny Mayer wrote: >> Harlan Stenn wrote: >>>>>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >>>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nigel Henry) writes: >>> Nigel> [EMAIL PROTECTED] djmons]$ /usr/sbin/ntpq >>> ntpq> pe >>> Nigel> localhost.localdomain: timed out, nothing received ***Request >>> timed Nigel> out >>> >>> This looks like ntpd is not running at the time you did this. >> No, you would not get Request timed out, you would get connection >> refused. It may be that the server is just dropping your queries. >> >> Danny > > FC5 isn't giving me this problem using 4.2.4p0-1.fc6. I do have the 2 local > clock lines (server, and fudge) uncommented, and when I boot the machine with > no Internet connection, then after connecting to the Internet (dialup) , I > run ntpq> pe, it shows local as a system peer, and 3 servers from > fedora.pool.ntp.org dynamic. It does take ages before one of the servers is > set as system peer, but it's working. > > On FC2 using 4.2.0-7, I am using 3 specific stratum2 servers, rather than a > pool. Could it be that because I only have 3 specific servers, that they are > being tried once while there is no initial Internet connection on bootup, are > failing to be found, and ntpd is not trying them again. I presume a server > pool has many available servers, so if I have a server pool in /etc/ntp.conf, > does ntpd just keep on trying to get a response in this case, like it tries > the pool, doesn't get a response, tries again, no response, tries again, and > so on, by which time I have made the Internet connection, and it's still > trying to find a pool server, and now with an active Internet connection it > gets a response, and sets up 3 available Internet servers? > > As I'm having problems installing 4.2.4p0 from the tarball on FC2, I think > I'll try reinstalling 4.2.0-7, put a server pool in /etc/ntp.conf, and see > just for hell of it, if it works. > > All in a days work. > > Nigel.
That's not the issue. The question really is what you have in your ntp.conf file. If you have restrict statements in the file ntpd may just drop queries like you are making and therefore ntpq will just time out. It's hard to know without seeing the config file. If it takes a long time to get a preferred server, you are probably not using the iburst option on the server lines. It speeds up synchronization considerably. Danny _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
