[wplug] NTP and bad time sources
Bob Schmertz
rschmertz at speakeasy.net
Fri May 23 11:01:52 EDT 2003
Any NPT experts here?
I've been reading the HTML documentation for NTP, and I wonder if someone could clarify something for me. It makes mention of ntpd exiting if the time differential between the host and source is greater than the threshold, but it's not clear whether it claims to exit only if this discrepancy is seen on startup, or whether it will do this at any time. In my experience, on Linux, NTP will adjust the system time to whatever wacko time the NTP source decides to spit out, as long as the time seemed reasonable when ntpd started up in Linux. I'm seeing my source time get reset to wildly different times (usually Jan 1, 2003) for unexplained reasons, and I'd like for my Linux boxes not to swallow these changes, but to bail out.
If the behavior I have observed is the actual default behavior of NTP, does anyone know of any way of making it do something more reasonable on a wild reset of the source (hopefully without modifying the source code :-))?
Thanks,
Bob
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