Subject: Re: ntpd fails to establish connection with server
To: Sverre Froyen <sverre@viewmark.com>
From: Frank Kardel <kardel@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 06/15/2006 20:01:41
Sverre Froyen wrote:

>Hi,
>
>With sources from yesterday morning (Jun 14 09:36 MDT), ntpd has stopped 
>working.  ntpq -pn reports
>
>     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
>===============================================
> 192.168.1.112   .INIT.          16 u    -   64    0    0.000    0.000   0.000
>
>no matter how long I wait.   Packets on the network appear normal and include 
>ntp responses from 192.168.1.112.
>
>Is anyone else seing this?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Sverre
>
>uname -a
>
>NetBSD abbor.viewmark.com 3.99.21 NetBSD 3.99.21 (ABBOR) #63: Wed Jun 14 
>10:08:14 MDT 2006
>
>ABBOR -is GENERIC_LAPTOP minus apm0 plus TMPFS plus enable ACPI
>
>gcc --version
>
>gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20060603 prerelease (NetBSD nb1 20060602)
>
>  
>
could you check whether there are two ntpd running one being the child 
of the other?
(ps alxww | grep ntpd). If so, this is likely to be a bug in the ntp 
distribution. which
then needs to be fixed.

Regards,
  Frank