Hello All, I cannot get ntp to work on my computer.
In the past, with previous versions, there have been no problems - it just works! I think there is a bug in ntp somewhere (it has 0.0.0.0 on the brain), but the maintainer seems to disagree. I submitted bug 56551 which has now been closed again. For more details, please look at that bug report. He suggested I ask on debian-user, which is exactly what I am doing. Here are some of the symptons: snoopy# ntptrace localhost: stratum 16, offset 0.000160, synch distance 0.69316 0.0.0.0: *Timeout* 0.0.0.0??????? Why? snoopy# ntptrace -d localhost: DoTransmit(127.0.0.1) DoTransmit to 127.0.0.1 ReceiveBuf(127.0.0.1, 127.0.0.1) stratum 16, offset -0.000092, synch distance 0.70863 0.0.0.0: DoTransmit(0.0.0.0) DoTransmit to 0.0.0.0 ReceiveBuf(0.0.0.0, 127.0.0.1) receive: wrong server DoTransmit(0.0.0.0) DoTransmit to 0.0.0.0 ReceiveBuf(0.0.0.0, 127.0.0.1) receive: wrong server [...] receive: wrong server *Timeout* tcpdump also reports: [...] 09:33:12.013686 localhost.1069 > localhost.domain: 30406+ PTR? 0.0.0.0.in-addr.arpa. (38) (ttl 64, id 5249) 09:33:12.013686 localhost.1069 > localhost.domain: 30406+ PTR? 0.0.0.0.in-addr.arpa. (38) (ttl 64, id 5249) 09:33:12.023686 localhost.domain > localhost.1069: 30406 NXDomain* q: 0.0.0.0.in-addr.arpa. 0/1/0 (102) (ttl 64, id 5250) 09:33:12.023686 localhost.domain > localhost.1069: 30406 NXDomain* q: 0.0.0.0.in-addr.arpa. 0/1/0 (102) (ttl 64, id 5250) [...] looks wrong to me. Also, ntpdate and ntpd often cannot get a response from the server (this seems a bit unpredicatable). Other people have been using the same server fine, so I am guessing it is related to these problems here. Later: when first running ntpd I get this from tcpdump: tcpdump: listening on ppp0 09:54:35.433686 202.12.87.129.ntp > 203.12.236.9.ntp: v4 client strat 0 poll 6 prec -17 09:54:35.603686 203.12.236.9.ntp > 202.12.87.129.ntp: v4 server strat 2 poll 6 prec -19 09:54:35.603686 202.12.87.129 > 203.12.236.9: icmp: 202.12.87.129 udp port ntp unreachable [tos 0xc0] What is going on? ntpd not even listening for the reply? No wonder it didn't receive it... Any ideas? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>