From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 9 8:16:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (lcmail2.lc.ca.gov [165.107.12.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4B7237B4CF for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 08:16:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) id <0G3R00J01MIVHH@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 08:16:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from tagalong ([165.107.42.185]) by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) with SMTP id <0G3R00J2BMIUFC@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 09 Nov 2000 08:16:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 08:16:25 -0800 From: Drew Tomlinson Subject: RE: ntpd "Synchronization Lost" Errors In-reply-to: To: 'Dan Nelson' Cc: "'FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)'" Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Nelson [mailto:dnelson@emsphone.com] > Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 7:23 PM > To: Drew Tomlinson > Cc: FreeBSD Questions (E-mail) > Subject: Re: ntpd "Synchronization Lost" Errors > > > In the last episode (Nov 08), Drew Tomlinson said: > > I recently installed ntpd on a 486 system running > 4.1.1-STABLE and it > > appears to be working. However, my log file shows the following > > entries: > > > > Nov 7 02:36:58 blacksheep ntpd[372]: time reset -0.166610 s > > Nov 7 02:36:58 blacksheep ntpd[372]: synchronisation lost > > Nov 7 08:01:35 blacksheep ntpd[372]: time reset -0.154462 s > > Nov 7 08:01:35 blacksheep ntpd[372]: synchronisation lost > > Nov 7 09:48:32 blacksheep ntpd[372]: time reset -0.167576 s > > Nov 7 09:48:32 blacksheep ntpd[372]: synchronisation lost > > > > What does the "synchronisation lost" message mean and why do I get > > it? Is it something to be concerned about? > > What's more worrying is the fact that ntp is having to jump time by > over .1 seconds every few hours. Depending on exactly how > recently you > installed FreeBSD, ntp might still be trying to calculate your clock's > drift. What does "ntpdc -c kerninfo" print? I'm a newbie and just found out about ntp in Greg's book. So I attempted to set it up and it's been running for only a few days. I'm betting this is a problem, huh? 101 Blacksheep# ntpdc -c kerninfo ntpdc: read: Connection refused So I assume this means that the NTP server I am pointing isn't accepting my connection? Here is my ntp.conf: 106 Blacksheep# cat ntp.conf server 165.227.1.1 prefer #ns.scruz.net (Santa Cruz, CA) server 63.192.96.2 #ntp1.mainecoon.com (Quincy, CA) server 63.192.96.3 #ntp2.mainecoon.com (Quincy, CA) server 132.239.254.49 #ntp.ucsd.edu (San Diego, CA) driftfile /etc/ntp.drift broadcast 192.168.0.255 So then I try an update manually using ntpdate and it seems to work: 108 Blacksheep# ntpdate ns.scruz.net 9 Nov 08:11:09 ntpdate[1438]: step time server 165.227.1.1 offset -32.772205 sec So where is my error? Thanks for your help! Drew > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@emsphone.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message