From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 17 14:43:04 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 B134516A41F for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 14:43:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF33B43D66 for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 14:43:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B31F05D67; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 09:43:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 58232-03; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 09:43:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-122-227.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.122.227]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5CDE5D4E; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 09:42:59 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43A423FD.6010104@mac.com> Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 09:43:09 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christopher McGee References: <46101566D29D0545B46956D30185677E016751@IVCLONEXCH01.IVCAPITAL.COM> <43A36485.7090409@xecu.net> In-Reply-To: <43A36485.7090409@xecu.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ntp problems (strata too high) 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: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 14:43:04 -0000 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