fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > It looks like you have not waited out a couple minutes even. After a > minute and loose change you should know if it is reachable, though. > > You can check that with: > [root@it ~]# ntpq -n -c peers;ntpq -n -c assoc > remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset > jitter > ============================================================================ > == > 127.127.1.0 127.127.1.0 3 l 11 64 17 0.000 0.000 > 0.008 > 132.239.1.6 132.249.20.88 2 u 3 64 17 29.482 -12.287 > 0.550 > +63.192.96.3 63.192.96.10 2 u 13 64 17 51.090 2.395 > 0.008 > *164.67.62.194 .PSC. 1 u 11 64 17 26.581 0.058 > 0.074 > ind assID status conf reach auth condition last_event cnt > =========================================================== > 1 1164 9014 yes yes none reject reachable 1 > 2 1165 9014 yes yes none reject reachable 1 > 3 1166 9414 yes yes none candidat reachable 1 > 4 1167 9614 yes yes none sys.peer reachable 1 > > > If reach is no then you have troubles. Just why I don't know because > ntpdate uses the same ports pretty much the same way as ntpd itself. > > I prefer to sit in "ntpq" and use the "assoc" and "peers" commands > more or less alternately to watch the system trying to synch up. It > takes several minutes for things to settle down. But "reach" should > get set pretty quickly. > > (NOte that it took 17 polls to get to this status. That was almost 18 > minutes. You must have patience IF reach increments each 64 seconds or > so.) > > {^_^} Well, here's the output I get when I try, after about 12 hours of waiting: [root@davinci root]# ntpq -n -c peers;ntpq -n -c assoc remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter ============================================================================ == *127.127.1.0 127.127.1.0 10 l 22 64 377 0.000 0.000 0.008 69.22.157.240 0.0.0.0 16 u - 1024 0 0.000 0.000 4000.00 ind assID status conf reach auth condition last_event cnt =========================================================== 1 56708 9624 yes yes none sys.peer reachable 2 2 56709 8000 yes yes none reject [root@davinci root]# So I can reach myself, but not anyone else? I'll try, as someone else suggested, the ISP's DNS server and see if that helps. Thanks, -Don