NTPD not keeping time

[Peter A. Giessel]

On 2006/11/30 11:16, Kris Anderson seems to have typed:
> Here's the output from ntpq.
> 
> webdev# ntpq -p
>      remote           refid      st t when poll reach 
>  delay   offset  jitter
> ==============================================================================
>  time-a.nist.gov .ACTS.           1 u  485 1024  377  
> 78.454  4307608 923174.
>  india.colorado. .ACTS.           1 u  491 1024  377  
> 22.918  4307064 922326.
>  lerc-dns.grc.na .INIT.          16 u    - 1024    0  
>  0.000    0.000 4000.00
> 

I take it this system was shutdown overnight?  It looks like ntpd hasn't
been running long at this point.

Try starting ntpd with the -g flag

On 2006/11/30 10:16, Kris Anderson seems to have typed:
> server time-a.nist.gov prefer   iburst
> server utcnist.colorado.edu     iburst
> server lerc-dns.lerc.nasa.gov   iburst

You might also want to consider using the pool instead of all stratum 1
servers, for most the pool is more than accurate enough, so:

server 0.pool.ntp.org
server 1.pool.ntp.org
server 2.pool.ntp.org

Unless you really need to be using statum 1 servers...