Questions tagged [ntpd]

The Network Time Protocol daemon (NTPd) is a daemon program that synchronizes the system time with time servers using the Network Time Protocol (NTP).

The Network Time Protocol daemon () is a daemon that synchronizes the system time with time servers using the Network Time Protocol ().

Website: http://www.ntp.org

Man page: http://linux.die.net/man/8/ntpd

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntpd

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NTP doesn't seem to be enabled and synchronised in Debian Jessie

When I follow steps below in Ubuntu, NTP is enabled and synchronised. However, the case is opposite in Debian Jessie. Anybody knows the reason why Debian says "no"? Also should I worry at all since the "Local time" is correct? Steps taken $…
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How to force locally isolated ntpd update time

Objective I had locally isolated hosts. I'd like them all have the same time. One takes role of the time server, other syncs with it as clients. All machines has sporadic uptime. They are powered rarely. So they could gain significant offset. Entire…
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NTP Autokey IFF not working as expected

A) TARGET ARCHITECTURE We have a project where the target NTP time synchronisation architecture is the following: Stratum 1 servers provided by the customer. Stratum 2 servers: Spectracom SecureSync appliances provided by us. Stratum 3: end-user…
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NTP peer's upstream source has same IP causing sync loop

I have an NTP server configured to use another NTP server (10.128.0.10) as its time source. Due to some network address translation, my NTP server (192.0.2.1) has the same IP address as the peer's upstream NTP server (192.0.2.1). $ ntpq -4 -p …
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Timesyncd with NTP server using md5

I have a FreeBSD server used as an NTP server with md5 as authentication. If I want to connect to it from a FreeBSD/Linux machine which has ntpd, I can simply add something along the lines of server 192.168.1.1 key 10 in /etc/ntp.conf and then…
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Using host as ntp-client and lxc-router as ntp-server

I installed ntpd on my Debian host machine to keep the hardware RTC "up-to-date". By sharing the system's clock the time gets automatically propagated to all installed containers (lxc). One of those containers runs my router. I'd like to use this…
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Why would NTP service successfully exit?

I am having recurrent problems with stalled datetime on my virtual Debian 8 machine running in Windows 8 Hyper-V. I haven't done much of a post-install configuration, it's a deliberately rather vanilla install and no fancy stuff -- I just use the…
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NTP client reseting date to 1970

I have and debian running NTP client, but this cliente is reseting date to 1970.....and doesn't show any error in log. This is that I tried: 1) date (shows 1970) 2) stop NTP service 3) ntpdate with server as parameter (date/time sync perfect) 4)…
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Debian NTP Server cant synchronize

I have Debian 8 and NTP server. Problem is that, NTP Server use only "self" IP server and I don't know why ntpq -p: remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset …
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NTP server permission denied when trying to read key file

I'm trying to set up an NTP timeserver for hosts on my internal network to synchronise against. I need to use authorisation in order to comply with PCI standards. I've created a set of keys using ntp-keygen -M and added the below snippet to my…
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Server keep restarting after reaching 'starting web server'

Recently one of our server failed and wont start services. I looked over the /var/log/messages and found this: Dec 27 00:53:48 localhost apcupsd[3413]: apcupsd FATAL ERROR in linux-usb.c at line 609 Cannot find UPS device -- For a link to detailed…
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NTP listen broadcast IP

We have restricted NTP to listen only eth0 and rest should will ignore. However we can see that after making changes in ntp.conf it is trying to listen broadcast and failing to bind address with unexpected error. ntpd[89217]:…
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Where to host NTP server?

nomenclature info: machine - physical on virtual PC server - an application run on a machine to be accessed by clients Hello, we started monitoring delays in requests between our proxy server(NGINX) and our application server(Apache) - each on…
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How to set up NTP (not SNTP) on a Windows box?

I have a network that is running on Brocade layer 3 switches. I need these switches to be synced with NTP. The computer that I need to use is running Windows 7 and has services such as Win32time that use SNTP but no native NTP support. So far I…
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Where can I see ntpd working status (log or message)

In my server the ntpd service is started but it does not seem to work. I can find nothing according to this ( Where are the ntpd log file located, and how can we configure the ntpd log file path? ) and this ( Where can I look up for the ntpd log? )…
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