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

[Peter Kiem]

Hi,

I've got a FC3 machine where the system clock ADVANCES at a rapid rate 
which screws up the services I have running.

I've got a hardware router (Snapgear SME575) which exposes an NTP server 
to my network and I can successfully use ntpdate to update the clock as 
long as I do it every 2 minutes.

In the FC3 machine I have the following ntp.conf
/etc/ntp.conf:
restrict default nomodify notrap noquery
restrict 127.0.0.1
server 202.173.151.129
driftfile /var/lib/ntp/drift
broadcastdelay  0.008
keys /etc/ntp/keys

When I look at what NTP is doing I see:
# ntpq -p
      remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset
  jitter
==============================================================================
  fizban.zordah.n 0.0.0.0          5 u   31   64  377    1.038  -393692
29073.0

So from what I can NTP is working and can contact the NTP server on my
router but the time is changing so fast NTP cannot keep up?

Has anyone experienced/solved this issue?

-- 
Regards,
Peter Kiem

Zordah IT - IT Consultancy and Internet Services
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