Problem with NTP.

Tue Apr 21 09:13:29 UTC 2009

Thanks for the reply Simon. Here is the ntpq and ntp.conf info.

     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset
jitter
==============================================================================
 Server1              Server2    4 u    9   64   77   18.104  -1193.4
3.107
  Server2                               Server 3         3  u         5
64      77      19.688      -1188.2      1.623

restrict default noquery nomodify
restrict 127.0.0.1
restrict Server1 mask 255.255.255.255 nomodify notrap noquery
restrict Server2 mask 255.255.255.0 nomodify notrap
server Server1 minpoll 4 maxpoll 6
server Server2 minpoll 4 maxpoll 6
driftfile /var/lib/ntp/drift
logfile /var/log/ntp.log

Remember I use this config for numerous other machines, it is just this one
I
have an issue with. Any thoughts on possible solutions would be much
appreciated.

FYI

When I run ntpq -p on all of our other Linux machines it shows as below.

     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset
jitter
==============================================================================
 +Server1              Server2    4 u    2   64   377   18.104  -12.428
8.107
  *server2                               Server 3         3  u         58
64      377      19.688      -0.482       10.623

Regards

Andrew Bridgeman

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Well the root cause of this issue could be located on various places.
             What I can suggest to try is run # ntpq -p <ntp source server>
             <ntp source server> means the server which you are trying to
synchronize with

             If the connection is refused than you know that you have a
permissions problem somewhere.

             An other option is to show the output of ntpq -p and
/etc/ntp.conf
                         Please make servernames and IP addresses
anonymous.

Cheers,
Simon

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>I have a new Redhat version 4 server that was built last week. I have
>edited the /etc/ntp.conf and made sure all the entries in the folder
>/etc/ntp are the same as all the other Linux machines we have
>onsite. It
>seems to find time sources as when I use ntpq -p it comes up
>with the name
>and IP Addresses but I just cannot get it too sync i.e. has a
>* or + next
>to server IP Addresses. I have pretty much been through the
>config on the
>machine and the only two things I can see that are different
>is that it is
>using itself for NIS as it is the NIS master and also in the
>/etc/hosts.equiv file it has individual entries not + at trusted
>like all the
>other machines. I do not think these differences are having an
>impact on
>NTP not synchronising but just thought I would mention them anyway.
>
>Does anyone know what I can try to solve this issue as the time on the
>server needs to be the same as all the other machines.
>
>Any help would be much appreciated.
>
>Regards
>
>Andrew Bridgeman
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