On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 06:19:09PM -0400, Dylan William Hardison wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 04:36PM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote:
> > I normally use ntpdate to query time servers in an hourly cron job. I've
> > used 0.pool.ntp.org, 1.pool.ntp.org, and 2.pool.ntp.org for my queries,
> > but all day I've been getting errors. I've used n.us.pool.ntp.org, and
> > n.north-america.pool.ntp.org, and even some others, not part of the
> > pool, and I keep getting errors. They'll respond to pings, but not NTP
> > calls. In one case (rolex.usg.edu), it worked twice, and then returned
> > errors.
> >
> > Did I miss a memo about this or something? Any ideas?
>
> You're using brighthouse.
Close, but no cigar. Verizon FIOS.
>
> For the past week or two I haven't been able to connect to ANY machine
> (even my own linode) over the ntp/udp port.
>
> When I am able to connect, there is very high latency on the message
> getting through. So high that ntpd freaks out...
>
> The only way I can get it to work is to tunnel out over ssh to my
> linode...
Still doesn't answer why, though. Sometimes it *does* work for me, but
mostly not.
Paul
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