[Bigsister-general] ntp problem

[Martin Fuzzey <suppressed>]

Hi,

I am new to bigsister and having trouble with my ntp service always 
being red.
I am running Debian Sarge and have modified the script as described on 
this list to remove the -r and -t options however it still doesn't work.

I think this is because my ntptrace command is timing out:

   # ntptrace localhost
   localhost: stratum 3, offset 0.003045, synch distance 0.240213
   213.210.55.91: timed out, nothing received
   ***Request timed out

but doing ntpdate on localhost or the stratum 2 server both work :
   # ntpdate -q localhost
   server 127.0.0.1, stratum 3, offset 0.000003, delay 0.02565
   13 Nov 01:00:32 ntpdate[25007]: adjust time server 127.0.0.1 offset 
0.000003 sec
   # ntpdate -q 213.210.55.91
   server 213.210.55.91, stratum 2, offset -0.005905, delay 0.11871
   13 Nov 01:00:47 ntpdate[25008]: adjust time server 213.210.55.91 
offset -0.005905 sec

Running tcpdump seems to indicate that ntpdate uses NTPV4 protocol 
wheras ntptrace uses NTPV2 - could this be problem?

So my questions :
1) Does anyone know what's going on here?
2) How can I use the ntpdate based check rather than the ntptrace one 
(both the newstyle and the oldstyle checks are called ntp)?

Help appreciated,

Martin



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