Driving Me Nuts

[John Brooks]

try this:

kill the ntpd process
run "ntpdate sundial.columbia.edu"
restart ntpd

ntpd is not happy if the clock is too far off

--
John Brooks
john at day-light.com 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of David Marshall
> Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2005 1:37 AM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: NTP: Driving Me Nuts
> 
> 
> I'm having an awful time trying to get NTP working on some new servers.
> 
> Consider three machines:
> 
> jeffy: my home machine, runs 5.4 with a very sleek kernel, sits 
> behind a router.
> 
> web1: one of the new servers, running 5.4-p2 with a kernel
> configuration that *only* has options INET6 commented out:
> 
> root at web1# diff GENERIC WEB
> 25c25
> < ident         GENERIC
> ---
> > ident         WEB
> 32c32
> < options       INET6                   # IPv6 communications protocols
> ---
> > #options      INET6                   # IPv6 communications protocols
> 
> 
> web2: another of the new servers, running 5.4 with GENERIC
> 
> All three have the same /etc/ntp.conf:
> 
> server sundial.columbia.edu
> driftfile /var/db/ntp.drift
> 
> All, of course, have ntpd_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf
> 
> Here are the relevant lines from the log when I run /etc/rc.d/ntpd
> start, after making sure it is stopped, of course.  When any of them
> is stopped "netstat -n | fgrep 123" yields no lines.
> 
> jeffy:
> 
> Jun 11 23:24:53 jeffy ntpd[90141]: ntpd 4.2.0-a Mon May  9 
> 15:42:44 PDT 2005 (1)
> Jun 11 23:24:53 jeffy ntpd[90141]: no IPv6 interfaces found
> 
> web1:
> 
> Jun 12 02:28:23 web1 ntpd[783]: ntpd 4.2.0-a Sun Jun 12 00:46:05 
> EDT 2005 (1)
> Jun 12 02:28:23 web1 ntpd[783]: no IPv6 interfaces found
> Jun 12 02:28:23 web1 ntpd[783]: bind() fd 6, family 2, port 123, addr
> 0.0.0.0, in_classd=0 flags=8 fails: Address already in use
> 
> web2:
> 
> Jun 12 02:24:28 web2 ntpd[32792]: ntpd 4.2.0-a Sun May  8 
> 06:01:21 UTC 2005 (1)
> Jun 12 02:24:28 web2 ntpd[32792]: bind() fd 9, family 2, port 123,
> addr 0.0.0.0, in_classd=0 flags=8 fails: Address already in use
> 
> 
> 'ntpq -p' on jeffy returns a normal looking ntpq result.  'ntpq -p' on
> either web1 or web2 eventually times out.  However, if I put a
> "restrict" into their ntp.conf I get something like
> 
>      remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   
> offset  jitter
> ==================================================================
> ============
>  hickory.cc.colu .INIT.          16 u    -   64    0    0.000    
> 0.000 400000
> 
> that never changes, even after several hours.
> 
> I've read a lot of similar problem reports, but none of them ever seem
> to have a definitive answer.
> 
> Can anyone help?  I'm really mystified.
> 
> The only thing I have left to try is that I have noticed that jeffy
> has NO_INET6 = true set in /etc/make.conf, whereas web1 does not have
> this.
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