[OpenIndiana-discuss] ntpd not keeping time in sync

[Christopher Chan]

On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 09:13 AM, Gary Driggs wrote:
> On Jul 12, 2011, at 3:52 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
>
>> I have switched from broadcastclient to specifying 5 time servers. That seems to have got it to behave properly.
>
> That isn't a default setting in OI, is it? If so, I'd strongly advise against it. In fact, I advise against using it at all since DHCP has options for NTP but IIRC not all clients will use them by default.
>

Nay, it uses multicastclient as a default (/etc/inet/ntp.client) but I 
did set it up to use the local time server I run after it started having 
issues (it had been using it just fine with broadcastclient) to no 
avail. Then I went for multiple external time servers.