ntpd problems

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Wed Jul 27 14:56:18 UTC 2005


Sharon Kimble wrote:
> On 25/07/05, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> 
>>Sharon Kimble wrote:
>>
>>>I have the following entries appearing in my 'XNTPD' section of my logwatch
>>>output;-
>>>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> sendto(200.30.141.26): Invalid argument
>>> sendto(80.53.57.158): Invalid argument
>>> sendto(64.112.189.11): Invalid argument
>>>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>and it repeats. Where do I find the configuration file that lists these, and
>>>then hopefully I can correct it/them and get my time synced? I've looked in
>>>ntpd.conf but can't see it.
>>
>>Are you using pool.ntp.org ntp servers? These are probably IPs from that
>>pool. Is your ntpd actually getting synced? What's the output of:
>>
> 
>>From ntp.conf;-
> --------------------
> server 0.pool.ntp.org
> server 1.pool.ntp.org
> server 2.pool.ntp.org
> -------------------
> 
>>$ /usr/sbin/ntpq -c peers
> 
> -------------------
> /usr/sbin/ntpq -c peers
>      remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
> ==============================================================================
>  80.237.234.15   .INIT.          16 u    - 1024    0    0.000    0.000 4000.00
>  192.115.133.35  .INIT.          16 u    - 1024    0    0.000    0.000 4000.00
>  80.85.129.25    .INIT.          16 u    - 1024    0    0.000    0.000 4000.00
> -----------------

You're not reaching those timeservers. So perhaps *all* of them are down 
(sounds a bit unlikely), or maybe there's a firewall rule blocking ntp 
packets?

You might want to look at http://www.pool.ntp.org/#use and tune the 
entries to choose servers in your own country, or even use your ISP's 
ntp server if they have one.

Paul.




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