NTP problem - Clock too fast for NTP to keep up?

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 09 February 2005 23:22, Peter Kiem wrote:
>> I looked at mine and I find that the offset and jitter are much
>> smaller.  From the following link, the offset should be less.
>
>Definately.  I see MUCH less on my physical servers.
>
>> manually reset it.  Also look at the drift file as if this is out,
>> your clock will run at the wrong pace.  You may have to delete
>> this file and start again.
>
>The drift file never changes from 0.000

Thats my observation also.

>> http://networking.ringofsaturn.com/Protocols/ntp.php
>> http://ldp.paradoxical.co.uk/LDP/sag/html/x2883.html
>
>I've done LOTS of reading on NTP and set it up lots of times but
> this situation has me stumped.

So have I, but I've never managed to get ntp itself to work, see my 
previous post about scripting ntpdate, works ok ANAICT.

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