Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

[Paul Colquhoun]

On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 14:31:52 Dale wrote:
> William Kenworthy wrote:
> > Dale, can you post (a sanitised) version of what 'ntpq -p' gives after
> > ntpd has been running for some time, and the sanitised result of
> > 'ntptrace.  Also include your full (sanitised) ntp.conf
> > and /etc/conf.d/ntpd.
> >
> > This might help us see more detail of what is happening.
> >
> > BillK
> >
> > * sanitised - obfuscate public IP's only.
>
> I should have posted this a while back.  Here we go:
>
> root@fireball / # ntpq -p
>       remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset
> jitter
> ===========================================================================
> === +triangle.kansas 128.252.19.1     2 u    4   64  127   56.270  673.749
> 238.194
> +B1-66ER.matrix. 192.43.244.18    2 u   14   64  377   75.505  672.846
> 165.087
> +kallisti.us     208.90.144.52    3 u   22   64  377   62.917  663.831
> 168.738
> *kazilik.haqr.ne 209.51.161.238   2 u   42   64  377   66.483  653.962
> 166.119
> root@fireball / # ntptrace
> localhost: stratum 16, offset 0.000000, synch distance 0.000240
> root@fireball / #
>
> This is ntp.conf but I omitted the parts that are commented out.
>
>
> server  64.6.144.6
> server  67.159.5.90
> server  67.59.168.233
> server  204.62.14.98
>

Have you tried switching servers?

I'm using

server 0.au.pool.ntp.org
server 1.au.pool.ntp.org

Try the equivalent for your location, or there are  0.gentoo.pool.ntp.org and 
so on.


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