On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 at 12:17:47PM +0000, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 10:39:31 +0000 (+0000), Hugo Mills wrote:
> > My guess is that the ntpd machines aren't actually synced to a
> > time-source. Check the status of the ntpd with "ntpq -p". The second
> > field (refid) should be an IP address for at least one of the NTP
> > services. If it isn't, then the ntpd isn't talking to the service. Of
> > course, it's also possible that the upstream NTP server is somehow
> > broken -- I know that Tony had problems with Windows time servers a
> > while ago.
>
> If you are all at the same site, why not run your own NTP server, sync
> that to an external source, then sync all the other boxes to it? Not
> only will it be slightly more accurate, but you won't end up with
> boxes syncing to different sources.
We would do that, but the Windows people control the firewall, and that
blocks ntp...
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