From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 12 19:47:56 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4B8A16A4CE for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2005 19:47:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.orbweavers.co.uk (213-152-38-100.dsl.eclipse.net.uk [213.152.38.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F2FC43D1D for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2005 19:47:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from martinmcc@orbweavers.co.uk) Received: from www.orbweavers.co.uk (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mail.orbweavers.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1469620579 for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2005 20:52:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from 192.168.16.79 (SquirrelMail authenticated user martinmcc) by www.orbweavers.co.uk with HTTP; Sat, 12 Mar 2005 20:52:17 -0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <2250.192.168.16.79.1110660737.squirrel@www.orbweavers.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <42334057.5070705@gmx.net> References: <42334057.5070705@gmx.net> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 20:52:17 -0000 (GMT) From: martinmcc@orbweavers.co.uk To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Subject: ntp problems (strata too high) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 19:47:56 -0000 Hi, I am having problems getting my client machine syncing with hy ntp server. Details follow - doing a ntpdate -d 192.168.16.1 on the client returns 12 Mar 19:35:56 ntpdate[1443]: ntpdate 4.2.0-a Thu Nov 4 22:31:39 UTC 2004 (1) Looking for host 192.168.16.1 and service ntp transmit(192.168.16.1) receive(192.168.16.1) transmit(192.168.16.1) receive(192.168.16.1) transmit(192.168.16.1) receive(192.168.16.1) transmit(192.168.16.1) receive(192.168.16.1) transmit(192.168.16.1) 192.168.16.1: Server dropped: strata too high server 192.168.16.1, port 123 stratum 16, precision -20, leap 11, trust 000 refid [192.168.16.1], delay 0.02574, dispersion 0.00000 transmitted 4, in filter 4 reference time: 00000000.00000000 Thu, Feb 7 2036 6:28:16.000 originate timestamp: c5ddc31c.eacb5afa Sat, Mar 12 2005 19:35:56.917 transmit timestamp: c5ddc31d.053aaf24 Sat, Mar 12 2005 19:35:57.020 filter delay: 0.02579 0.02577 0.02574 0.02574 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 filter offset: -0.10333 -0.10334 -0.10334 -0.10334 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 delay 0.02574, dispersion 0.00000 offset -0.103344 ------------ On the server ntpq -cas returns - ind assID status conf reach auth condition last_event cnt =========================================================== 1 15532 b024 yes yes none reject reachable 2 2 15533 b024 yes yes none reject reachable 2 3 15534 b024 yes yes none reject reachable 2 4 15535 b024 yes yes none reject reachable 2 ------------------- and ntpq -p returns remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter ============================================================================== clueful.shagged 195.66.241.3 2 u 107 256 17 33.901 199.499 14.837 sky.nuxi.it 217.11.227.68 3 u 108 256 17 68.775 212.512 17.382 i157107.upc-i.c 193.79.237.14 2 u 107 256 17 54.001 203.632 9.815 62.152.126.5 146.48.83.182 3 u 109 256 17 58.000 201.334 9.996 -------------------- ntp.conf on server is restrict 192.168.16.0 mask 255.255.255.0 nomodify notrap restrict 127.0.0.1 server uk.pool.ntp.org server 0.pool.ntp.org server 1.pool.ntp.org server 2.pool.ntp.org logfile /var/log/ntp.log ------------------- (server ip is 192.168.16.1, client is 192.168.16.200) doing a ntpdate uk.pool.ntp.org from either server or client syncs fine. Any help would be much appreciated. Cheers, Martin