[OpenIndiana-discuss] NTP trouble and 123 port

[Gary Mills]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 08:15:50AM -0400, Gary Gendel wrote:
> On sort of the same topic.  I've set up ntpd as a client, similar to
> what you described but I can't seem to get it to work.  ntpq -p
> always shows all the peers in INIT state with a stratum of 16.
> (That's not exactly true, every once in a while I get an ipv6 peer
> through my 4to6 tunnel to initialize but that's a rare occurrence).

That can happen if the initial time on your machine is too far away
from the time known to the NTP peers.  You might have to set it by
hand first.

You could also investigate further by running ntpd with debugging
turned on or by looking at an NTP packet trace.

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