Thanks Martin for the response. Unfornutately I reloaded the box and was not able to collect the output of the "ntpq -p". However the two servers which I had configured were just 2-3 mins apart. Can you please explain what would be going wrong here ?
Regards, Kiran S Shirol "Martin Burnicki" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Kiran, > > kiran shirol wrote: >> Hi NTP experts, >> >> I am facing a issue in getting the NTP to sync with the server >> configured. >> >> Description: >> I have a box which has 2 interfaces. One interface for the connectivity >> with the local-lan. The other >> interface is connected directly to a linux box. >> >> IP address details : >> NTP server in the network -- 171.69.21.23 >> NTP server directly connected -- 10.1.1.1 >> >> When I configure 10.1.1.1 as my NTP server, within a few seconds I am >> able >> to see the sync. >> When I configure the additional server 171.69.21.23, it goes out of sync. >> But I am able to see >> the packet exchange happening. >> >> Now if i remove 10.1.1.1 from the list, I get 171.69.21.23 into sync & >> vice-versa. >> >> When I have configured both the servers, I see "no server reachable" >> message in the debugs. >> >> Can someone please tell me what is going on here ? >> >> My system is a regular Linux machine. I am running a older NTP version >> 4.2.0a. > > Can you send us the output of "ntpq -p" after both servers have been > configured and the NTP daemon has been running for a couple of minutes? > > Possibly both upstream servers distribute times which are too different, > so > your NTP daemon does not know which one has the "right" time. > > This is why you should configure 3 or even more servers, see: > http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Support/SelectingOffsiteNTPServers#Section_5.3.3. > > > Martin > -- > Martin Burnicki > > Meinberg Funkuhren > Bad Pyrmont > Germany _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
