From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 30 20:55:39 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 674EF16A6B5 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:55:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ciscoaix@yahoo.com) Received: from web90615.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web90615.mail.mud.yahoo.com [216.252.100.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1EB8C43CA5 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:55:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ciscoaix@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 18778 invoked by uid 60001); 30 Nov 2006 20:55:38 -0000 Message-ID: <20061130205538.18776.qmail@web90615.mail.mud.yahoo.com> DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=ZKMpHGCm4acUXj4kvP2LCzSAn5rUz51DHHV5pQEScbd4uZwFS48v55DTGAaOu3/0p4QmAzGAbBZrcHz8NToW/ycCi5QgmTt/bKD70LyKIXTaRVJ80XIaXpKlEBy8LhvCarrro2FufD0Bw3sY/4bejqfNK2yJ/V2SgXYPucbR6RY=; X-YMail-OSG: PhGQeWEVM1k9Vxn3LCTGZgPiZ1wdxS9hH4Z69VHCiY.x3WBJj7vrdAjLkMSWhAreXAlIgouSupipZols3w8SS8i3hWZ0NAmE_eVHFRmHdjtfW7gh3.HFPc4Hy_vuaZwtWezqw7KagsT5PoE- Received: from [198.237.17.1] by web90615.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:55:38 PST Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:55:38 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Anderson To: Chuck Swiger In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NTPD not keeping time 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: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:55:39 -0000 --- Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Nov 30, 2006, at 12:16 PM, Kris Anderson wrote: > > Here's the output from ntpq. > > > > webdev# ntpq -p > > remote refid st t when poll > reach > > delay offset jitter > > > ====================================================================== > > > ======== > > time-a.nist.gov .ACTS. 1 u 485 1024 > 377 > > 78.454 4307608 923174. > > india.colorado. .ACTS. 1 u 491 1024 > 377 > > 22.918 4307064 922326. > > lerc-dns.grc.na .INIT. 16 u - 1024 > 0 > > 0.000 0.000 4000.00 > > Your clock is off by a little over an hour; while > ntpd can correct > very large offsets, doing so takes a long time. > Kill ntpd, re-run > "ntpdate -b", double-check that your clock is sane, > and then re-start > ntpd. Off by an hour? Let's see the date is November 30th, and 12:41pm, that's what Windows says. Meanwhile freebsd says - Thu Nov 30 00:22:07 PST 2006. Wouldn't that be...nearly 12 hours? > You should also note that your third ntp server is > not answering > queries, so you should try finding some other ntp > server to use. Are > you providing time syncronization from this machine > to other hosts, > or are you only running as a standalone client? > > If you are not providing time sync to a large > subnet, please consider > using stratum-2 servers or the NTP pool, ie, > pool.ntp.org, or more > specific regional parts, such as 0.us.pool.ntp.org, > > 1.us.pool.ntp.org-- this is assuming from your IP > that you are > located in the US, otherwise choose the appropriate > country code for > where-ever you are. I'll give it a shot and see what happens, I did just that yesterday. Okay, changed my pool since it's to keep this computer's time correct. Thanks for your help. :) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com