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Date:      Tue, 16 May 1995 22:12:41 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike Pritchard <pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu>
To:        uh@delta.cs.fsu.edu (Gang-Ryung Uh)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ntpdate
Message-ID:  <199505170312.WAA05179@mpp.com>
In-Reply-To: <199505170119.VAA03580@delta.cs.fsu.edu> from "Gang-Ryung Uh" at May 16, 95 09:19:34 pm

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> I tried to set my local time to gatekeeper.dec.com as follow:
> 
> # ntpdate gatekeeper.dec.com
> 16 May 20:18:29 ntpdate: no server suitable for synchronization found
> 
> 
> I am pretty sure that xntpd is not running on my machine!!
> 
> Thanks for your help!!

I've noticed that if I try running ntpdate right away after bringing
my network up that I will get the above message.  If I put in a sleep
of a few seconds, then ntpdate will run correctly about 98% of the
time.  
-- 
Mike Pritchard
pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu
"Go that way.  Really fast.  If something gets in your way, turn"



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