Niall O Broin wrote:
> There seem to be some VERY weird time related things going on with
> SLES9. I manage a number of SLES9 boxes in different environments,
> and not one of them will correctly synchronise to its configured time
> server, although the ntpd start script does ntpdate against the
> configured server, and that works. Also, in each environment there
> are other boxes running various other Linux and Unix versions which
> are happily syncing to the time servers.
>> In nearly every case, ntptrace only returns a line for localhost
> (which is normal if ntp hasn't been running for long, but some of
> these boxes have been running for months - long enough to sync, I'd
> imagine).
>> In one box I have seen a line printed for the time server, but then
> the message
>> timed out, nothing received
I remember having a similar problem with a few boxes. They weren't SLES9 but
the problem turned out to be related to having ipv6 enabled, which was
causing the DNS lookups to timeout. Might be worth a look.
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