Re: ntpd not correcting system time, offset keeps increasing

[scar <scar%drigon.com@localhost>]

Greg Troxel wrote on 01/14/2015 06:48 AM:
>> You only configured a single time server and this is below the
>> configured number of "sane" time servers. That's why ntp ignores it.
>>
>> If you only have one time server you need something like:
>>
>> tos            minsane 1
> 
> Entirely accurate, but it is not reasonable to run with a single server;
> that's not how NTP is designed and it's less robust.
> 

thanks guys i'll add a couple more servers.  also i'm not sure what
happened but suddenly the system time is accurate again.  i don't see
any messages about ntp adjusting the time though but something must have
kicked in with all the ntpd restarts i've been doing.....