Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 09:43:09 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Christopher McGee <chris@xecu.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ntp problems (strata too high) Message-ID: <43A423FD.6010104@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <43A36485.7090409@xecu.net> References: <46101566D29D0545B46956D30185677E016751@IVCLONEXCH01.IVCAPITAL.COM> <bbe90d1d0512080920v248829aet341c3fcffb2cc955@mail.gmail.com> <43A36485.7090409@xecu.net>
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Christopher McGee wrote: [ ... ] > I hate to reopen a dead thread, however, I'm having a very strange > problem I have 2 machines running ntpd. I just set this up and it is > not working. [ ... ] > 192.168.1.3 .STEP. 16 u 1 128 0 0.000 0.000 > 192.168.1.2 .DROP. 16 u - 64 0 0.000 0.000 When a machine is badly out of sync, it indicates this by setting it's stratum to an unbelievable level, so other NTP servers avoid depending on it until some time has passed and the server's time remains stable for a reasonable time period. This appears to be what is happening with the .DROP. and .STEP. refid's you've shown. Be patient, NTPD ought to sync up given a few hours... -- -Chuck
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