Intermittent NTP problem on LAN 1

[ayjaycee]

We have 2 Sun boxes set up as NTP Servers (peer'd to each other) for our network.

Several workstations are NTP clients to these servers.

This works OK most of the time, but occasionally the command
"ntpdate -q client" (for various clients)returns the
"ntpdate: no server suitable for synchronization found" error message.

Usually, retrying the command results in an OK response.

NB: This does not involve firewalls - all the Suns are on the same LAN.

Anyone have any ideas? - it's not a big problem, but the output from the ntpdate -q command is used by our monitoring software to ensure NTP is working OK. TandA

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[lfoata]

You may have a timeout problem, try -t flag with ntpupdate.
The default is 1 second (usually enough but maybe not in your case)
to get a timeout of 2 seconds you would specify :
ntpdate -t 10 (the number get multiplied by 0.2 secs)

 

[ayjaycee]

Thanks - I'll try that & monitor it. TandA

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[ayjaycee]

Seems to have done the trick.

Cheers s-) TandA

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One by one, the penguins steal my sanity.