On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 02:28, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > ** Reply to message from jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx> on Tue, 06 Apr 2004 > 21:06:13 -0400 > > > On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 18:56, Brian Bober wrote: > > > Janthao wrote: > > > > I'm not sure if this is a problem with my machine or with the > > > > timeserver. Does anybody else have problems with clock.redhat.com? > > > > > > > Yes, I have that problem too, but only last couple days. > > > > If I remember, the ntp README, ntp protocol allows for the server to > > ignore requests when heavily loaded (drop packets, sound familiar?). In > > which event your machine ntpd will time out and try later at random > > intervals. > > Also in heavy traffic, if the sample jitter your machine receives is > > more than 128mS over three seconds, the samples are discarded. > > See the ntp README also man 1 ntpd > > It times out, you can't even ping it. > > -- > Regards, > Erik P. Olsen Could you ever ping it? Most firewalls don't allow pinging since this can lead to a Dos attack. (From fedora.redhat.com) PING www.redhat.com (209.132.177.50) 56(84) bytes of data. --- www.redhat.com ping statistics --- 12 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 11016ms -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
