Re: [ntp:questions] Server down but time staying in sync

2009-07-16 Thread Daniel Kabs
On Tuesday 14 July 2009, raju dantuluri wrote: We have observed that the NTP client never appear to be out of sync even though the NTP server is down! It's important for us to know that the server is down/not available! ... $ ntpq -np remote refid st t when poll reach

Re: [ntp:questions] Keeping NTP Honest

2009-07-16 Thread Andy Helten
David Woolley wrote: So, basically, as long as you act irresponsibly with respect to use of energy and other resources, you will have no problem. Powering down is often the optimum way of minimising energy usage and maximising the time till land fill. To avoid temperature transients

Re: [ntp:questions] Server down but time staying in sync

2009-07-16 Thread raju dantuluri
reach=0, when=58h but the tally code is still showing * $ ntpq -np remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter == *172.16.1.49 209.123.234.24 3 u 58h 102400.514 -3.268

Re: [ntp:questions] Server down but time staying in sync

2009-07-16 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2009-07-16, raju dantuluri dsra...@gmail.com wrote: reach=0, when=58h but the tally code is still showing * $ ntpq -np remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter = *172.16.1.49 209.123.234.24 3 u

Re: [ntp:questions] Keeping NTP Honest

2009-07-16 Thread Hal Murray
One thing you could try would be to put your clock in a thermostatically controlled oven. I'm not talking about something you could bake a pizza in, but rather something that will keep 140 degrees F +/- half a degree. 140 is pretty warm. That will reduce the lifetime of most electronics

Re: [ntp:questions] Keeping NTP Honest

2009-07-16 Thread Kevin Oberman
From: hal-use...@ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net (Hal Murray) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:18:01 -0500 Sender: questions-bounces+oberman=es@lists.ntp.org One thing you could try would be to put your clock in a thermostatically controlled oven. I'm not talking about something you could

Re: [ntp:questions] Keeping NTP Honest

2009-07-16 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
Hal Murray wrote: One thing you could try would be to put your clock in a thermostatically controlled oven. I'm not talking about something you could bake a pizza in, but rather something that will keep 140 degrees F +/- half a degree. 140 is pretty warm. That will reduce the lifetime

Re: [ntp:questions] Server down but time staying in sync

2009-07-16 Thread raju dantuluri
Steve, thanks for the comment! here it is (actually I have posted the configuration file above) with the ntpq output, $cat /etc/ntp.conf restrict default ignore restrict 127.0.0.1 server 172.16.1.49 iburst restrict 172.16.1.49 $ntpq -np remote refid st t when poll reach

[ntp:questions] ntpdate and autokey

2009-07-16 Thread vidya sagar ravipati
Can we use autokey authentication with ntpdate.I spend lot of time reading all the man pages and documentation about ntpdate and ntpd but I am not still clear about this.Your help will be appreciated. Thanks Sagar ___ questions mailing list