Could someone please help me out with this? I have heard that the high stratum number is bad and could be the cause of the error. What does stratum mean? Why would i get this problem even locally? root@portal:[12]~ ntpdate -q localhost server 127.0.0.1, stratum 16, offset -0.000093, delay 0.02618 18 May 13:00:37 ntpdate[1880]: no server suitable for synchronization found root@portal:[13]~