Re: [ntp:questions] NTP/Linux Machine Issue

2011-04-27 Thread David J Taylor
Your client software is five years out of date, I suggest you update it. Red Herring. Not even worth updating for the security updates? The problem here is that the client system is running in a VM. Not mentioned in the original post, though! The OP wants to sync this client to his

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP/Linux Machine Issue

2011-04-27 Thread Rob
Chris Albertson albertson.ch...@gmail.com wrote: 3) I think you need more than one server line. What if 10.200.37.37 needs to be taken off-line. I'd set up at least two ntp servers and configure al clients to use both Of course now others will chime in that you need more than two, and in the

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP/Linux Machine Issue

2011-04-27 Thread Chris Albertson
You are right. It all depends on what you need. But notice that his client was off by about an hour because it coud not contact his server. Some system don't freewheel as well as others On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 1:33 AM, Rob nom...@example.com wrote: Chris Albertson albertson.ch...@gmail.com

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP/Linux Machine Issue

2011-04-27 Thread Rob
Chris Albertson albertson.ch...@gmail.com wrote: You are right. It all depends on what you need. But notice that his client was off by about an hour because it coud not contact his server. Some system don't freewheel as well as others The reason that it was off was not that it could not

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP/Linux Machine Issue

2011-04-27 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
On 4/27/2011 11:14 AM, Chris Albertson wrote: others will chime in that you need more than two, and in the end you will need 9 servers or so. But this is of course hogwash. You define what you need. When you have one server and it is taken offline, the clients clocks will continue to run

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP/Linux Machine Issue

2011-04-27 Thread unruh
On 2011-04-26, Yousif Qaddoura yousif.qaddo...@damanhealth.ae wrote: Hi Steve, Yes it is virtual machine, the host is linux also with vmware server installed. Stop trying to sync a virtual machine. It's clock cannot be relied on to keep time. Discipline the underlying clock. Kinldy note

[ntp:questions] NTP/Linux Machine Issue

2011-04-26 Thread Yousif Qaddoura
Dear Support, I have a NTP server, and configure clients on it. I am facing an issue that the offset is too much high so there a difference in the time between the client and the server, it is reaching 1 hour sometimes. NTP client version: ntpq 4.2.0a@1.1190-rmailto:4.2.0a@1.1190-r Thu

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP/Linux Machine Issue

2011-04-26 Thread David J Taylor
Dear Support, This is a newsgroup, there is no support as such. I have a NTP server, and configure clients on it. I am facing an issue that the offset is too much high so there a difference in the time between the client and the server, it is reaching 1 hour sometimes. NTP client version:

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP/Linux Machine Issue

2011-04-26 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2011-04-26, Yousif Qaddoura yousif.qaddo...@damanhealth.ae wrote: client machine : linux redhat 4.6 [root@dmtestapp1 ~]# ntpq -p remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter 10.200.37.37

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP/Linux Machine Issue

2011-04-26 Thread unruh
On 2011-04-26, Yousif Qaddoura yousif.qaddo...@damanhealth.ae wrote: Dear Support, I have a NTP server, and configure clients on it. I am facing an issue that the offset is too much high so there a difference in the time between the client and the server, it is reaching 1 hour sometimes.

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP/Linux Machine Issue

2011-04-26 Thread Harlan Stenn
David wrote: Dear Support, This is a newsgroup, there is no support as such. I have a NTP server, and configure clients on it. I am facing an issue that the offset is too much high so there a difference in the time between the client and the server, it is reaching 1 hour

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP/Linux Machine Issue

2011-04-26 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2011-04-26, David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid wrote: Attribution Missing wrote: ntpq 4.2.0a@1.1190-rmailto:4.2.0a@1.1190-r Thu Oct 5 04:11:36 EDT 2006 (1) Your client software is five years out of date, I suggest you update it. Red Herring. remote refid

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP/Linux Machine Issue

2011-04-26 Thread Chris Albertson
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Steve Kostecke koste...@ntp.org wrote: On 2011-04-26, David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid wrote: Attribution Missing wrote: ntpq 4.2.0a@1.1190-rmailto:4.2.0a@1.1190-r Thu Oct  5 04:11:36 EDT 2006 (1) Your client software is five years out of

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP/Linux Machine Issue

2011-04-26 Thread David Woolley
Steve Kostecke wrote: The problem here is that the client system is running in a VM. That's most likely, however the inappropriate use of the local clock driver isn't helping, by making it virtually impossible for it even to get by with infrequent time steps. Without that, either ntpd

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP/Linux Machine Issue

2011-04-26 Thread unruh
On 2011-04-26, Steve Kostecke koste...@ntp.org wrote: On 2011-04-26, David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid wrote: Attribution Missing wrote: ntpq 4.2.0a@1.1190-rmailto:4.2.0a@1.1190-r Thu Oct 5 04:11:36 EDT 2006 (1) Your client software is five years out of date, I suggest

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP/Linux Machine Issue

2011-04-26 Thread Chris Albertson
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:01 PM, David Woolley david@ex.djwhome.demon.invalid wrote: Steve Kostecke wrote: The problem here is that the client system is running in a VM. That's most likely, however the inappropriate use of the local clock driver isn't helping, Just wondering how you

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP/Linux Machine Issue

2011-04-26 Thread Yousif Qaddoura
=damanhealth...@lists.ntp.org [questions-bounces+yousif.qaddoura=damanhealth...@lists.ntp.org] On Behalf Of Steve Kostecke [koste...@ntp.org] Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 6:56 PM To: questions@lists.ntp.org Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] NTP/Linux Machine Issue On 2011-04-26, Yousif Qaddoura yousif.qaddo

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP/Linux Machine Issue

2011-04-26 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2011-04-26, unruh un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca wrote: On 2011-04-26, Steve Kostecke koste...@ntp.org wrote: On 2011-04-26, David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid wrote: In your ntd.conf, remove the local clock, and add in three pool server lines such as:

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP/Linux Machine Issue

2011-04-26 Thread E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists
Yousif Qaddoura wrote: Yes it is virtual machine, the host is linux also with vmware server installed. Kinldy note that the host machine's time is correct and it is synchronizing with my NTP 10.200.37.37 Here are some links I've run across in the past related to VMware NTP. You'll likely