JCA wrote: > I have three Linux boxes, A, B and C, running ntpd. C gets its > synchronization from some external, stratum 2 server, whereas A and B > get their synchronization from C, as a stratum 3 server. > > This setup has been working fine for months. A couple of days ago I > noticed that A and B did not seem to be in sync any more. I restarted > ntpd in A and B, making sure that A and B were synchronized with C by > hand before. They both started fine but, surely enough, they did not > seem to be keeping up with C - the local clocks on A and B started to > diverge as though ntpd were not running at all. > > C is reachable from A and B without any problems. In turn, C stays > synchronized with the external server all right - always within 0.05 > seconds. Nothing has changed in A, B and C within the last few months. > I just can't understand why, all of a sudden, A and B are no > synchronizing with C at all. > > How can one even begin to diagnose this problem? ntpd on A and B is > not dumping any information to my logs. In particular, the "time > reset" messages are absent. For all practical purposes, it is as > though it were not running at all on those two boxes - however, > synchronizing by hand with C by means of ntpdate works fine on both A > and B. > > Any ideas, anyone?
Not without any information. post the output of ntpq -p A B C so we can see at least whether at least they are synchronized. Danny _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
