Re: ntpdate woes - no suitable server
* Hanasaki JiJi (hanasaki@hanaden.com) spake thusly:
> 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]~
Do you have ntpd running on localhost? Is it listening on lo interface?
Can you connect to port 123 on localhost? Can you connect to any of the
servers listed at http://www.google.com/search?q=public+time+servers ?
Dima
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