[ale] ntp

[Jeff T]

The max time difference is 74 seconds.  I can't even get ntpdate 
to work.  I have started ntpd on one of the a couple of the workstations 
with debugging and I get an error like this:

transmit: at 138 172.17.1.74 -> 172.17.1.214 mode 3
receive: at 138 172.17.1.74 <- 172.17.1.214 mode 4 code 1
packet: bad header 020

I am currently looking down this road to see if it is causing the 
problem.  

I have currently tried all the "magic" ntpd switches and still get 
nothing. 

Thans for you help,
Jeff

At Wednesday, 11 April 2001, "Joseph A. Knapka" <jknapka at earthlink.
net> wrote:

>What exactly is the time problem? How far off are the clocks on the
>machines that won't sync? If it's more than an hour or so, I believe,
>ntpd will just refuse to sync; I assume this is to avoid getting
>bogus time data from a misconfigured server. You need to either run
>ntpdate first to bring the local clock in line with the server, or else
>there's a magic option to ntpd, -g I think, that forces it to use the
>configured server no matter how far off the local clock is.
>
>Good luck,
>
>-- Joe
>
>Jeff T wrote:
>> 
>> In order to keep all the UNIX hosts on my network running at the
>> same time I use ntp.  I use a LINUX server to act in client mode
>> to an external clock server and then all my UNIX workstations 
function
>> as clients to the LINUX server.  I have been running it successfully
>> for about 8 months.
>> 
>> This morning one of the developers informs me there is a time 
problem.
>> I have been trying to solve it ever since.  The ntpd daemon starts
>> up okay and using ntpdc on the hosts seems to give me proper responses.

>> I have rebuilt ntpd from source on the server and on my client
>> to no avail.  I downloaded automachron for a Windows client and it
>> will sync with the LINUX server but none of my UNIX hosts will.
>> 
>> The UNIX hosts are mostly Red Hat Linux and IRIX 6.5.x.  Anyone have
>> any pointers that I should look at?
>> 
>> Jeff
>> 
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