Nelson Minar wrote:
> This is a mystery! > > I tried using 69.17.7.16 as the only NTP server on my Debian box. I > get basically the same pathology. My ntpd seems to poll every 1-3 > seconds, and has been for several minutes. Does anyone have a > non-Debian ntpd install they'd be willing to try this on? At this > point I'm willing to bet it's a bug in generic ntpd and the responses > this server is sending out, but it'd be nice to verify that. > > The only thing I see funny in Anthony's packet trace is the Peer > Polling Interval: 0 in the response from the server. That's clearly > not the most useful response, but ntpd should be smart enough to cope > with it. Maybe it's a simple bug in handling insane input? > > It'd be nice to know what that server is doing. 69.17.7.16 is > badforyou.net, and it seems easy enough to contact that system's > owner. But I'm holding off a bit until we figure out what we can on > our own. > 69.17.7.16 seems to be no longer serving ntp (ntpdate -q shows no packets comming back). The scoreboard for that server http://www.pool.ntp.org/scores/69.17.7.16 is a little funky too. John _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
