From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 20 8:22:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from absinthe2.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-154-205.dsl.chic01.pacbell.net [64.169.154.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A2B937B422 for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:22:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from fred@localhost) by absinthe2.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f8KFMK503989 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:22:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fred) Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:22:19 -0700 From: Fred Condo To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NTPDATE problems Message-ID: <20010920082219.A3956@absinthe.condo.chico.ca.us> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200109200017.f8K0HKF53260@arrow.lan.raffles-it.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200109200017.f8K0HKF53260@arrow.lan.raffles-it.com>; from dpd@raffles-it.com on Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 01:17:20AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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