Richard B. Gilbert wrote: [] > I'd guess that someone installed NTPD and neglected to configure it. > I've never rung NTPD on Windows so I'm hazy on the details of > configuring it on Windows.
The Meinberg installation includes configuration by default, using some pool servers. > Most other systems have a file somewhere call ntp.conf which contains > four or more "server" statements; each one pointing to a server to be > used by ntpd. These statements look like > > server server_name.domain iburst > server another_name.domain iburst > server <IP address> iburst > server . . . . > > It's customary to specify four, five, or seven servers. Ten is the > absolute maximum. Four should be sufficient for most. "iburst" tells > ntpd to send the first eight queries at intervals of two seconds. After > the initial "burst" ntpd will query the server at intervals > ranging from 64 seconds to 1024 seconds depending on how long it has > been running and the quality of the time it is getting. To expand on Richard's commenets, look for the file: C:\Program Files\NTP\etc\ntp.conf It should have a few lines like: server 0.uk.pool.ntp.org iburst server 1.uk.pool.ntp.org iburst but you may have something different from "uk" depending what you asked for at installation time. Cheers, David _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
