T. Nifty Hat Mitchell wrote:
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 08:34:02PM +0200, Eric Tanguy wrote:
In the boot process the ntp synchronisation failed whereas after the time synchronization is all right. Why ? may be because i use firestarter ?
If you have friends running Linux/Fedora exchange NTP privileges.
First look at how ntpd is started for you.
In general you will find that the initial connection using ntpdate times out for various normal reasons. As a result the return status is an error.
You can chech for this behavoure to do a ping to the ntp-server. If you ping 3 to 5 times, you will see the first ping takes longer than the others. Most likely, after this ping (before the ntpd-start) the first ntp query also succeeds.
Specially if you call the ntp-server by name, the IP-address is not cashed jet and hence a dns-query must be made. Since it is at boot time, most likely all routings and such also need to be setup.
If you have pinged the ntp-server (even only once!), all routers and name-caches are filled and the ntp-query can go strait on and will be substantial faster.
If you check back +15 min later things will be fine when ntpd has had time to make some connections.
However, if you start ntp only 15 minutes later, it is likely that the first call still is a little late.
Note that /etc/init.d/ntpd first starts ntpdate then ntpd. It is not uncommon for ntpdate to fail in the early stages of booting a system for a list of reasons...
Not necessarily, newer ntpd-s have ntp-date build in and do that themself. If it is done separatly, this ntp-date will walk the paths for the next ntpd-s.
Do, find a ntp time service local to you.
Based on the mail headers, perhaps ntp.univ-nantes.fr
or look here... http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/clock2b.html
nice list.
# FR ntp.obspm.fr Location: BNM-SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris, Paris, France Synchronization: NTP V4 secondary (stratum-2), i386/Linux Service Area: France/Europe Access Policy: open access, but please send a message to notify Contact: info.bnm-syrte@xxxxxxxx, More Informations? Note: use DNS for IP address.
If you have friends running Linux/Fedora exchange NTP privileges with each other!
