Subject: Re: weird ntpd time skew on ss20 with -current (2001/03/24)
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Martin J. Laubach <mjl@emsi.priv.at>
List: current-users
Date: 03/30/2001 22:55:32 
|  My sparc-20 running -current (2001/03/24) is having trouble keeping
|  accurate time.  For some reason ntpd wants to run about 2-5 seconds
|  offset from my local server.

  Same here with a macppc-current off a local server i386-1.5:

ntpdc> dm
     remote           local      st poll reach  delay   offset    disp
=======================================================================
 LOCAL(0)        127.0.0.1        6   64  377 0.00000  0.000000 0.00099
*wachwichtel.ems 192.168.77.14    3   64  377 0.00169 -6.130835 0.00098

  It never seems to reduce the offset, indeed it just gets worse over
time (those are taken in ~30s intervals):

*wachwichtel.ems 192.168.77.14    3   64  377 0.00172 -6.251210 0.00098
*wachwichtel.ems 192.168.77.14    3   64  377 0.00172 -6.308372 0.00098

> Mar 31 00:49:43 celery ntpd[139]: time reset -6.335061 s
> Mar 31 00:49:43 celery ntpd[139]: synchronisation lost

 wachwichtel.ems 192.168.77.14    3   64    0 0.00000  0.000000 0.00000

  Something is broken it seems.

	mjl