Re: Servers just doen't work (after following the troubleshooting page)

In article <433BE59D.1040908@xxxxxxx>, mayer@xxxxxxx (Danny Mayer) wrote:

(New, non-fatal problem, at end.)

> From the original post:

If you had been concentrating you would have realised:

> >
> > [root@server1 /]# ntpq -p

This is ntp1.

> > remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset
> > jitter
> > ==============================================================================
>
> > +ntp-0.gw.uiuc.e truechimer.cso. 2 - 55 1024 377 26.019 1.585
> > 2.253
> > *ntp3.tamu.edu ntp1.tamu.edu 2 - 20 1024 377 44.892 1.253
> > 1.445

The * means its synchronised.

> > +cisco1-mhk.kans navobs1.wustl.e 2 - 57 1024 377 47.829 3.943
> > 2.297
> > ntp2.<mydomain> 0.0.0.0 16 u - 256 0 0.000 0.000
> > 4000.00
> >
> >
> > [root@server2 /]# ntpq -p

This is ntp2.

> > remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset
> > jitter
> > ==============================================================================
> >
> > *ntp-1.gw.uiuc.e truechimer.cso. 2 u 146 1024 377 96.335 -166.48
> > 64.986

It's also synchronised.

> > +ntp3.tamu.edu ntp1.tamu.edu 2 u 268 1024 377 68.509 -129.28
> > 30.480
> > +cisco1-mhk.kans navobs1.wustl.e 2 u 229 1024 377 44.214 -126.14
> > 33.813
> > ntp1.<mydomain> 0.0.0.0 16 u - 256 0 0.000 0.000
> > 4000.00
> >
> > Looks synchronized to me.

This is true.

>

> Neither ntp1 nor ntp2 are synchronized. That's what I'm talking about.

This is false.

You are also wrong in saying that servers don't appear in the billboard
until they respond; they appear when they are DNS resolved. I've seen
enough firewall blocked cases to be sure that they do appear.

> Not the client not being synchronized. You're just looking in the wrong
> direction.

The problem has already been solved so there is no longer any doubt as
to the direction.

The ONE problem that you can see in the original is that both peers have
the same set of upstream servers, thus negating the benefits of peering.
They should use disjoint sets of servers.

.

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