On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Brian May wrote: > snoopy# ntptrace > localhost: stratum 16, offset 0.000160, synch distance 0.69316 > 0.0.0.0: *Timeout*
Please send all the relevant configuration files attached when you report bugs like this one... ntpd binds to 0.0.0.0 to receive packets from any interface, and this is not a problem. Now, it should not try to TALK to 0.0.0.0, but you didn't show ntpd talking to 0.0.0.0, rather *ntptrace* was trying to talk to 0.0.0.0... A small test shows that the bug is likely to be in ntptrace, and it is harmless. It should be fixed or documented (if it isn't documented already, I didn't check), but it isn't a release-critical (important) bug IMO. The bug can be triggered just after you start ntpd and before it syncs to the timeservers (in my system this takes about 5-10 minutes, so this is NOT a small window). ntptrace tries to connect to the upstream peer (or something like that), which is reported as 0.0.0.0 (I think), because ntpd doesn't have one choosen yet. Try ntpq -p -n and you'll probably see your ntpd is working just fine (if it is correctly configured, anyway). I didn't read the RFCs, so I don't know if a supposed 0.0.0.0 answer in the first sync window is right (bug in ntptrace) or wrong (bug in ntpd). > Also, ntpdate and ntpd often cannot get a response from the server > (this seems a bit unpredicatable). Other people have been using the Is your connection to the servers your localhost server is in sync with down? Are you sure it is not a DNS problem? If you often cannot connect to the *remote* server, that network path/server is not suitable for NTP (at least not as a sole server). Try pinging the servers when you notice you cannot connect to them, to access if the problem is the network path. Anyway, if you reply to the above questions, you should probably take the BTS out of the reply headers... -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
