Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:22:19 -0700 From: Fred Condo <fred@condo.chico.ca.us> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NTPDATE problems Message-ID: <20010920082219.A3956@absinthe.condo.chico.ca.us> In-Reply-To: <200109200017.f8K0HKF53260@arrow.lan.raffles-it.com>; from dpd@raffles-it.com on Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 01:17:20AM %2B0100 References: <200109200017.f8K0HKF53260@arrow.lan.raffles-it.com>
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On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 01:17:20AM +0100, David Dooley wrote: > Hi, > > I seam to be having a problem setting my servers clock using ntpdate. > The Server is running is FreeBSD 4.4 RC #1 > > when is try and run the command > > ntpdate ntp.cs.strath.ac.uk ntp2b.mcc.ac.uk > > I get the response > > 20 Sep 13:10:04 ntpdate[441]: no server suitable for synchronization > found > > but if I turn on query mode > > ntpdate -q ntp.cs.strath.ac.uk ntp2b.mcc.ac.uk > > I get > > server 130.159.196.118, stratum 2, offset -43209.008562, delay > 0.13278 > server 130.88.200.98, stratum 2, offset -43209.014114, delay 0.09576 > 20 Sep 01:11:06 ntpdate[445]: step time server 130.88.200.98 offset > -43209.014114 sec Your offset is huge -- too huge for ntpdate to set. You likely need to do one or both of the following: Set the BIOS clock (is your clock battery good?) Set FreeBSD to wall-clock mode if you are not setting the BIOS clock to UTC (remember UTC has no Summer Time). The offset is on the order of a month, so your clock is badly off. -- Fred Condo - fred@condo.chico.ca.us This above all -- to thine own self be true. -- Wm. Shakespeare To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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