Re: Problems with ntp & date

[Andreas Kahari <ak@freeshell.org>]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 07:34:31AM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote:
> I have been having some issues lately with ntp and date. This morning my 
> firewall had its date reset to oct 10 1944. Granted that it has a crappy 
> clock it has always been a dependable machine that had an uptime of over a 
> year with 3.2 running. I upgraded it to the 3.4 snapshot du-jour yesterday.
> 
> As a separate incident I had the same identical problem on another box. This 
> box actually froze (yes froze, even ddb would not come up) when I tried to 
> correct the date. I had to reset this box and set the date after a lot of 
> fsck. If anyone cares send me a private note and I'll send you the details on 
> this box.
> 
> Anyone any ideas?
> 
> Here is an excerpt from /var/log/messages (note the dates going from sep 2 to 
> oct 10):
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A fair number of people seems to have similar problems, judging
from recent list messages.

I think my problem was solved after specifying "minpoll 4 burst"
in /etc/ntp.conf for the servers I'm syncronizing against, and
upgrading to the devel version of NTP.  I'm not entierly sure
which of these changes (burst, minpoll 4, or NTP upgrade) solved
the problem (or rather, worked around it).


Andreas

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Andreas Kähäri
Essex, England