Re: ntp problems

["Oliver Bode" <oliver@x509security.com>]

> > > I noticed the problem after installing nagios, but I'm not sure if
it's
> > > related. Does anyone know some things I cantry next to solve this
> >problem?
> >
> >krnel support for NTP was removed due to the license problems.
> >the author of the code violently refused to collaborate
> >on multiple occasions.
> >
> >as a poor alternative use rdate -nas in the cron instead...
>
> I solved it swiftly by installing the new ntp-4.1.72p1 port after my
> upgrade to 3.2. Everything seems to work fine now, but it could as well
> be my well cooled hardware.
>
I am using 3.0 and for some reason it has sorted itself out. ntp is writing
new figures in driftfile. I'm not sure what fixed it as I was trying the
same thing all weekend (running ntpdate, stopping and starting the daemon) I
know I have a bad clock and the ntp documentation suggested my symptoms were
one of the following:

"The peer is discarded as unreachable, synchronized to this server (synch
loop) or outrageous synchronization distance", however I found it odd that
the same peer could use ntpdate successfully.

Anyway, it works now - thanks for the help.