Re: ntpdate troubles
Bill> Okay. It works okay at boot time?
Jerome> No !
Jerome> It is why I debg it: I get exactly the samr message error in
Jerome> `/var/log/syslog'.
Bill>
Bill> When you ran it by hand to debug it, the command looked something
Bill> like this, right?
Bill>
Bill> ntpdate -b REMOTE_MACHINE_NAME_GOES_HERE
Jerome> without the -b , but with -d -v -B
Okay. ntpdate with no REMOTE_MACHINE_NAME_GOES_HERE gives me
no servers can be used, exiting
I chose a machine in my building and get
adjust time server 192.168.0.5 offset 0.000451 sec
I chose a building outside my building (which I probably can't
get to because of all our stoopid firewalls and got
no server suitable for synchronization found
So I would guess this means that you cannot get to the machine
you are ntpdate'ing against. You showed that it worked when you
did it against ntp.apple.com. I assume that it also works when
you debug it by hand? If so, I would guess that Joris'
suggestion is a good one:
Joris> on my machine, I haven't got ntpdate to work out the
Joris> hostnames of any ntp server. I just pinged them, copied
Joris> the ip's and dpkg-reconfigure'd ntp to look for the
Joris> ip's. It has worked ever since.
Meaning that ntpdate is using a hostname but resolve the hostname
into an IP... I think... :-)
HTH,
- Bill
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