NTP problem

[Chris Rouch]

On 2/12/07, Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen <joukj at hrem.nano.tudelft.nl> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a problem with NTP on a FC6 machine connected to a adsl connection.
> When starting up the machine it tells me it fails to synch with the server
> (it started doing this one or two months ago) after that is sais that ntpd
> is started succesfully. I doubt this because I start noticing slight (1/2
> minute) time differences with other machines.
> First I thought it was a firewall problem, but this weekend I connetcted on
> the same network connection another FC6 machine, with the same
> Firewall/Selinux and NTP settings. This machine did not give the error.
> The only difference between the machines is the actual hardware and on
> machine 1 more FC6 packages are installed.
>
> Where do/can I look to solve this problem?
>

First try "service ntp restart" from a running system. If that fails,
chances are you have a faulty step tickers file. If it works, make
sure that DNS is available when ntp is started at boot time or that
/etc/ntp/step.tickers uses ip addresses instead of hostnames.

Regards,

Chris