Marco wrote: > Il 30/08/2011 10:35, Harlan Stenn ha scritto: > >> That could be. The point is: if I install a newer version on clients, > >> > I'll have to restart ntpd, and once I restart it, it will probably > >> > work (like all the other times we restarted them) and tell us nothing > >> > about the problem. > > It is interesting that the problem solves itself after a reboot. > > Not actually a reboot, but a restart of ntpd.
My typo - sorry... > > I did notice that the system that has the problem you mentioned with the > > host that does unicast is an outlier... > > That's not always the case, e.g., on one machine it is currently a > candidate: > > > remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jit > ter > > =========================================================================== > === > > +s51 69.25.96.13 2 m 283 1024 377 0.276 4.844 0.0 > 11 > > +s11 128.9.176.30 2 m 41 64 377 0.203 -1.618 0.0 > 61 > > *s12 204.123.2.5 2 m 56 64 376 0.001 -2.596 0.0 > 47 > > -s52 204.9.54.119 2 m 22 64 376 0.001 -12.454 0.0 > 58 s51 has a 1024 poll time but it's not unicast... > What you can notice, anyway, is that on those machines that show the > problem, the peer is "flapping" a lot: > > > Aug 30 05:04:43 XXX ntpd[3989]: synchronized to <s51's address>, stratum 2 > > Aug 30 05:10:39 XXX ntpd[3989]: synchronized to <s12's address>, stratum 2 > > Aug 30 05:56:12 XXX ntpd[3989]: synchronized to <s51's address>, stratum 2 > > Aug 30 06:05:21 XXX ntpd[3989]: synchronized to <s12's address>, stratum 2 > > Aug 30 07:23:01 XXX ntpd[3989]: synchronized to <s51's address>, stratum 2 > > Aug 30 07:44:32 XXX ntpd[3989]: synchronized to <s12's address>, stratum 2 I think we removed these messages because they were too noisy and did not really offer useful information > Does this add any useful information? Yes, and I still think it would be Interesting to see if you can replicate the problem with a recent -stable release (or -dev even, as we are close to starting the release cycle for 4.2.8). H _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
