Ryan Pugatch
2010-Jan-11 18:13 UTC
[CentOS] ntpd appears to not be able to query ntp servers automatically?
Hello all, After reboot, one of my servers running CentOS5 no longer keeps its clock synced automatically. ntpd is running and I don't see anything weird being logged. If I kick off ntpd with 'ntpd -q', it will sync the clock. However, if I just rely on ntpd started with 'service ntpd start', syncing does not happen. I previously had: # Undisciplined Local Clock. This is a fake driver intended for backup # and when no outside source of synchronized time is available. server 127.127.1.0 # local clock fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10 and noticed that ntpd would fail down to using the undisciplined local clock if I checked with ntpstat. I commented those out, and now ntpstat simply says: unsynchronised time server re-starting polling server every 64 Any idea as to why ntpd -q will sync, but otherwise the clock will not stay in sync even when the local clock drifts by several minutes? It worked fine prior to reboot. Thanks, Ryan