From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 12 11:09:23 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7B67106566B for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:09:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leslie@eskk.nu) Received: from mx1.bjare.net (mx1.bjare.net [212.31.160.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4A1A8FC25 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:09:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx1.bjare.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 989215E32C; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:09:22 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mx1.bjare.net X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.865 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.865 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=-0.170, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_PBL=0.905, SPF_PASS=-0.001] Received: from mx1.bjare.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mx1.bjare.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id eNZF45jCpM0L; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:09:19 +0100 (CET) X-BN-MX1: ja X-BN-MailInfo: BjareNet Received: from [172.17.0.140] (c-195-216-040-164.static.bjare.net [195.216.40.164]) by mx1.bjare.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3040A5E318; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:09:19 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4B9A20E2.8010102@eskk.nu> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:09:22 +0100 From: Leslie Jensen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; sv-SE; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?0JDQvdGC0L7QvSDQmtC70LXRgdGB?= References: <3f1c29e71003120257h23ecc310w730bbc6396b27a37@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3f1c29e71003120257h23ecc310w730bbc6396b27a37@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ntpdate problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:09:24 -0000 Антон Клесс skrev 2010-03-12 11:57: > I have the following line in my root cron: > > 5 * * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate ru.pool.ntp.org> /dev/null > > That must hourly adjust system time via NTP. > But I discover that it works from time to time: some days just once, some > days 5-6 times a day I receive e-mail with text like > > 12 Mar 12:05:05 ntpdate[25368]: no server suitable for synchronization found > > > But if I log in to server and run > > # /usr/sbin/ntpdate ru.pool.ntp.org > > everything always works OK: it says > > 12 Mar 13:51:57 ntpdate[27256]: adjust time server 80.93.56.210 offset > -0.616000 sec > > > Maybe NTP server doesn't like when some client (my server) asks it such way > - once a hour in same minute - and blocks my queries? > > Any suggestions? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Why don't you enable NTP in rc.conf? http://www.se.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-ntp.html # NTP ntpd_enable="YES" ntpd_config="/etc/ntp.conf" ntpd_flags="-p /var/run/ntpd.pid" ntpd_sync_on_start="YES" /Leslie