ntp help

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 01:35:18PM -0400, Neil Watson wrote:
> I have configured some NTP servers to synchronise with some public, stratum 
> 2,
> NTP servers. Now I'm trying to configure a client to synchronise with my new
> NTP servers. The test client reports that it is more accurate than the new
> servers:
> 
> [root at tor-lx-config config]# ntpq -pn
>     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  
>     jitter
> ==============================================================================
> 192.168.71.12   .INIT.          16 u    - 1024    0    0.000    0.000 
> 4000.00
> 192.168.71.42   .INIT.          16 u    - 1024    0    0.000    0.000 
> 4000.00
> 192.168.71.43   .INIT.          16 u    - 1024    0    0.000    0.000 
> 4000.00
> *127.127.1.0     LOCAL(0)        10 l   50   64  377    0.000    0.000   
> 0.002
> 
> Why are the new servers reported at stratum 16?

I think .INIT. means it hasn't run long enough to get a feel for the
time from that server.  Or perhaps it isn't even able to talk to that
server.  Firewall issues perhaps?

It normally ends up looking like this:
# ntpq -pn
     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==============================================================================
*85.214.46.68    131.188.3.221    2 u    1   64  377  120.248  -430.72  68.783
 127.127.1.0     LOCAL(0)        10 l   61   64  377    0.000    0.000   0.004

What does your config look like?

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