Hi all, So I’ve been providing NTP services for some time now and out of nowhere things start to change. So the bad time mails started to show up and right now the score is below 0. User page: http://www.pool.ntp.org/user/vtfitdx4832cb9qgxn And this is ntpq: $ ntpq -c pe -n remote ref…

$ ntpdate -qu 193.104.228.123 1 Dec 00:47:28 ntpdate[29130]: 193.104.228.123 rate limit response from server. server 193.104.228.123, stratum 3, offset 0.003960, delay 0.04890 1 Dec 00:47:28 ntpdate[29130]: adjust time server 193.104.228.123 offset 0.003960 sec $ ntpdate -qu 2001:67c:28c8:12::12…

Sorry for the late reply. I have limited in my restrict config, but i haven’t setup a rate-limit. So I guess it’s default? I have looked into documentation on this and have no clue what options to set to discard. Should i just use discard monitor 5000? Its a virtual Ubuntu running on VMWare with …

I haven’t done anything. With the next 14 days my guess is that it will happen again.

There are entries in the log that show your server being some 270 seconds off. Do you manage that VMWare setup yourself, or do you buy the service from somewhere else? If it’s managed by someone else, perhaps the VMs get transferred between hosts every now and then, and some hosts have flaky timekee…

Sorry for the very late reply! It was a VMWare issue and it’s corrected now - thanks alot!

@ask added both v4 and v6 to beta system now. Let me know if there’s anything else!

Server started keeping a bad time

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ask February 10, 2018, 10:35am 8

It looks good now… Thomas, it’d be interesting to have your server added in the beta system!

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