[newbie] ntpd not doing it's job - time always going off by 25 mins or more

[WauloK]

The time on my Mandrivalinux PC keeps advancing. It's currently almost 30 minutes too fast.

I even tried replacing the default ntpd with openntpd (I used urpmi ntpd and that's the one it chose to install).

 

# cat drift
-50.858
 

Jan 24 08:12:49 spooty ntpd[28466]: adjusting local clock by -1176.066280s
Jan 24 08:17:02 spooty ntpd[28466]: adjusting local clock by -1176.768720s
Jan 24 08:21:23 spooty ntpd[28466]: adjusting local clock by - 1177.423215s

Jan 23 22:26:36 spooty ntpd[8931]: peer 128.250.36.2 now valid
Jan 23 22:26:39 spooty ntpd[8931]: peer 202.139.83.40 now valid
Jan 23 22:26:40 spooty ntpd[8931]: peer 203.2.193.124 now valid
Jan 23 22:26:41 spooty ntpd[8931]: peer 128.250.36.3 now valid
Jan 23 22:26:42 spooty ntpd[8931]: peer 128.184.1.1 now valid
Jan 23 22:26:43 spooty ntpd[8931]: peer 192.189.54.33 now valid
Jan 23 22:26:43 spooty ntpd[8931]: peer 192.189.54.17 now valid
Jan 24 08:27:41 spooty ntpd[8930]: adjusting local clock by -1178.675939s
Jan 23 22:30:33 spooty ntpd[8931]: peer 192.189.54.33 now invalid
Jan 24 08:31:57 spooty ntpd[8930]: adjusting local clock by - 1179.161614s


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