On Oct 17, 2006, at 3:13 PM, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
My ntp.conf file looks like that:

server 2.pl.pool.ntp.org prefer
server 1.europe.pool.ntp.org
server 0.europe.pool.ntp.org
restrict default ignore
driftfile /var/db/ntp.drift

Unless you've got additional restrict lines which permit some hosts to make changes, using only "restrict default ignore" will prevent ntpd from paying attention to the timeservers you've listed and it will even prevent ntpd from changing the local clock or being administered via ntpq from localhost.

This misconfiguration will also cause your ntpd to generate excessive numbers of queries, rather than syncing up and reducing the NTP polling interval from minpoll to maxpoll. [1]

Remove that line and restart ntpd.

The rc.conf file has these lines:
ntpd_enable="YES"
ntpd_flags="-g -c /etc/ntp.conf -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -f /var/db/ ntp.drift"

What am I doing wrong that instead of having the time synced I see more and more discrepancy. When I rebooted and started the service 6 days ago there was about 20 seconds difference. Now it is well over 30.

Run:

    ntpq -c peers

...and you will be able to see the delay and offset from the NTP clocks you've configured in ntp.conf.

--
-Chuck

[1]: There are entire Linux distributions which have shipped with ntp.conf configured to prevent ntpd from working properly. These client machines end up querying NTP servers in the pool.ntp.org service repeatedly at minpoll (or even faster, if iburst is specified) because they discard the responses given to them, and therefore constitute an abuse of NTP server resources.


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