[ntp:questions] Problem with time synchronisaton

2008-04-11 Thread tony . carter
Greetings, I have ntpd installed (ntpq [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jun 4 15:13:06 UTC 2007 (1) and running but the time on the ntp host does not appear to be synching with the nominated external time references. Any assistance much appreciated. Details as follows: [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# ntpq -p

Re: [ntp:questions] Problem with time synchronisaton

2008-04-11 Thread David J Taylor
David J Taylor wrote: [] > By the way, that query doesn't work for me, so are you sure that > server is running NTP? Do you have permission to access it? You > might be better off with "pool" servers: > > 0.pool.ntp.org > 1.pool.ntp.org > > Cheers, > David Oops, I see you are using the Austral

Re: [ntp:questions] Problem with time synchronisaton

2008-04-11 Thread David J Taylor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings, > > I have ntpd installed (ntpq [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jun 4 15:13:06 UTC > 2007 (1) and running but the time on the ntp host does not appear to > be > synching with the nominated external time references. Any assistance > much > appreciated. > > Details as fo

Re: [ntp:questions] Problem with time synchronisaton

2008-04-12 Thread David Woolley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have ntpd installed (ntpq [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jun 4 15:13:06 UTC 2007 That is not a standard version number. Who allocated the "@1.1570-o" part of the version number? You may be better off getting support from them. > (1) and running but the time on the ntp h

Re: [ntp:questions] Problem with time synchronisaton

2008-04-12 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings, > > I have ntpd installed (ntpq [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jun 4 15:13:06 UTC 2007 > (1) and running but the time on the ntp host does not appear to be > synching with the nominated external time references. Any assistance much > appreciated. > > Details as f

Re: [ntp:questions] Problem with time synchronisaton

2008-04-12 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2008-04-12, David Woolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I have ntpd installed (ntpq [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jun 4 15:13:06 UTC >> 2007 > > That is not a standard version number. Really? On my system running 4.2.5p54 built from sources downloaded from www.ntp.org I se

Re: [ntp:questions] Problem with time synchronisaton

2008-04-12 Thread Harlan Stenn
Tony, Why do you have a local refclock configured? Why are you not using the 'iburst' keyword on your server lines? Have you seen http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Support/ConfiguringNTP ? -- Harlan Stenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member! __

Re: [ntp:questions] Problem with time synchronisaton

2008-04-12 Thread Harlan Stenn
>>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> writes: Richard> BTW, if you didn't wait at least 30 minutes between starting ntpd Richard> and getting the ntpq banner, you wasted your time! Ntpd generally Richard> requires about that much time to figure out exac

Re: [ntp:questions] Problem with time synchronisaton

2008-04-12 Thread David Woolley
Harlan Stenn wrote: > > Why do you have a local refclock configured? Because he's using an out of the box configuration. That, is probably the main reason that people have them configured. You really need to ask the people who put in the box, but I suspect they don't know, either. __

Re: [ntp:questions] Problem with time synchronisaton

2008-04-12 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2008-04-12, David Woolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Harlan Stenn wrote: > >> Why do you have a local refclock configured? > > Because he's using an out of the box configuration. That, is probably > the main reason that people have them configured. You really need to > ask the people who put

Re: [ntp:questions] Problem with time synchronisaton

2008-04-12 Thread Hal Murray
>The problem here is that the distribution does not contain a decent >assortment of example configuration files for common configurations. So >the OS distributors/aggregators/vendors each cobble together their own >one size fits all configuration file. But does a local refclock make sense in a ty

Re: [ntp:questions] Problem with time synchronisaton

2008-04-12 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2008-04-12, Richard B. Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, if you didn't wait at least 30 minutes between starting ntpd and > getting the ntpq banner, you wasted your time! Nonsense. After only two polls you can see if your ntpd is able to contact the remote time servers. You don't nee

Re: [ntp:questions] Problem with time synchronisaton

2008-04-13 Thread Maarten Wiltink
"Hal Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> The problem here is that the distribution does not contain a decent >> assortment of example configuration files for common configurations. >> So the OS distributors/aggregators/vendors each cobble together their >> own on

Re: [ntp:questions] Problem with time synchronisaton

2008-04-13 Thread Lord High Executioner
On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 06:34:57 +, David J Taylor wrote: > David J Taylor wrote: > [] >> By the way, that query doesn't work for me, so are you sure that >> server is running NTP? Do you have permission to access it? You >> might be better off with "pool" servers: >> >> 0.pool.ntp.org >> 1.po

Re: [ntp:questions] Problem with time synchronisaton

2008-04-14 Thread Danny Mayer
David Woolley wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I have ntpd installed (ntpq [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jun 4 15:13:06 UTC 2007 > > That is not a standard version number. Who allocated the "@1.1570-o" > part of the version number? You may be better off getting support from > them. > We do.

Re: [ntp:questions] Problem with time synchronisaton

2008-04-15 Thread Harlan Stenn
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> I have ntpd installed (ntpq [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jun 4 15:13:06 UTC 2007 Please see http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/EmbeddedVersionStringContent -- Harlan Stenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member! _