[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#426238: not any more the reported error, but not syncing anyway

[Mario Frasca]

On 2007-0528 13:06:40, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> What is also strange is that you get alot "no servers reachable", about
> once an hour, and then a little later it works again.

I noticed that too, but I'm not sure I understand your question...

you mean, if I notice anything like random interruption of network
reachability from other applications?

to this, the answer is no, I don't.

no idea what to do...  maybe disable ntp and measure the drift by hand
during one or two days...  this would exclude a really broken internal
clock.  otherwise my best guess, however unlikely, is that there might
be some recent mistake in ntpd where the endianness is not taken into
account...  but this really sounds too weird to be true...

this is what ntpd did after I restarted it this morning.

/var/log/syslog:May 28 09:55:59 localhost ntpd[8399]: precision = 1.000 usec
/var/log/syslog:May 28 09:55:59 localhost ntpd[8399]: Listening on interface #0 wildcard, 0.0.0.0#123 Disabled
/var/log/syslog:May 28 09:55:59 localhost ntpd[8399]: Listening on interface #1 wildcard, ::#123 Disabled
/var/log/syslog:May 28 09:55:59 localhost ntpd[8399]: Listening on interface #2 lo, ::1#123 Enabled
/var/log/syslog:May 28 09:55:59 localhost ntpd[8399]: Listening on interface #3 eth0, fe80::203:93ff:fe63:fd6e#123 Enabled
/var/log/syslog:May 28 09:55:59 localhost ntpd[8399]: Listening on interface #4 lo, 127.0.0.1#123 Enabled
/var/log/syslog:May 28 09:55:59 localhost ntpd[8399]: Listening on interface #5 eth0, 192.168.1.2#123 Enabled
/var/log/syslog:May 28 09:55:59 localhost ntpd[8399]: kernel time sync status 0040
/var/log/syslog:May 28 09:55:59 localhost ntpd[8399]: frequency initialized 56.435 PPM from /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift
/var/log/syslog:May 28 08:36:20 localhost ntpd[8399]: synchronized to 192.36.143.150, stratum 1
/var/log/syslog:May 28 08:36:20 localhost ntpd[8399]: time reset -4792.378826 s
/var/log/syslog:May 28 08:36:20 localhost ntpd[8399]: kernel time sync status change 0001
/var/log/syslog:May 28 08:41:02 localhost ntpd[8399]: synchronized to 192.36.143.150, stratum 1
/var/log/syslog:May 28 11:47:46 localhost ntpd[8399]: synchronized to 193.77.156.204, stratum 2
/var/log/syslog:May 28 11:52:34 localhost ntpd[8399]: no servers reachable
/var/log/syslog:May 28 11:55:32 localhost ntpd[8399]: synchronized to 192.36.143.150, stratum 1
/var/log/syslog:May 28 11:59:30 localhost ntpd[8399]: time reset -61.313354 s
/var/log/syslog:May 28 12:00:06 localhost ntpd[8399]: synchronized to 193.77.156.204, stratum 2
/var/log/syslog:May 28 12:01:04 localhost ntpd[8399]: synchronized to 192.36.143.150, stratum 1
/var/log/syslog:May 28 12:07:38 localhost ntpd[8399]: no servers reachable
/var/log/syslog:May 28 12:32:19 localhost ntpd[8399]: synchronized to 192.36.143.150, stratum 1
/var/log/syslog:May 28 12:26:44 localhost ntpd[8399]: time reset -377.648498 s
/var/log/syslog:May 28 12:27:03 localhost ntpd[8399]: synchronized to 193.125.143.172, stratum 2
/var/log/syslog:May 28 12:30:00 localhost ntpd[8399]: synchronized to 192.36.143.150, stratum 1
/var/log/syslog:May 28 13:35:35 localhost ntpd[8399]: no servers reachable
/var/log/syslog:May 28 13:47:46 localhost ntpd[8399]: synchronized to 192.36.143.150, stratum 1
/var/log/syslog:May 28 13:47:26 localhost ntpd[8399]: time reset -149.941324 s
/var/log/syslog:May 28 13:47:32 localhost ntpd[8399]: synchronized to 193.77.156.204, stratum 2
/var/log/syslog:May 28 13:50:06 localhost ntpd[8399]: synchronized to 192.36.143.150, stratum 1
/var/log/syslog:May 28 14:47:31 localhost ntpd[8399]: no servers reachable

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