NTP problem - Clock too fast for NTP to keep up?

[Peter Kiem]

I've kept on playing with tickadj and found out that 9000 seems to be 
the lowest that FC3 will go in my virtual server.  However this seems to 
have slowed the clock down to within a couple of seconds gain every 2 
minutes

Feb 11 10:41:56 krusty ntpdate[3687]: step time server 202.173.151.129 
offset -4.675165 sec
Feb 11 10:42:01 krusty ntpdate[3693]: adjust time server 202.173.151.129 
offset -0.165226 sec
Feb 11 10:43:58 krusty ntpdate[3705]: step time server 202.173.151.129 
offset -2.661458 sec
Feb 11 10:45:57 krusty ntpdate[3720]: step time server 202.173.151.129 
offset -4.160441 sec
Feb 11 10:47:59 krusty ntpdate[3738]: step time server 202.173.151.129 
offset -2.028393 sec

Thinking that this might be within ntpd's tolerances now I turned off 
the 2 minute ntpdate and restarted ntp.

Looks like ntpd still isn't working however:
# ntpq -p
      remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset 
  jitter
==============================================================================
  fizban.zordah.n 0.0.0.0          5 u    3   64  377    0.948  14109.8 
6480.31

This could be important, even though the reach value is tell me it can 
reach the NTP server ntptrace is telling me a different story!

# ntptrace 202.173.151.129
202.173.151.129: timed out, nothing received
***Request timed out

Why is this?

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Regards,
Peter Kiem

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