[Info-vax] NTP Error 0.000977

[Jose Baars]

On 31 aug, 18:11, Grant <grantmacdon... at eastlink.ca> wrote:
>   HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Industry Standard 64 Version V5.6
>   on an HP rx4640  (1.50GHz/4.0MB) running OpenVMS V8.3
>
> $ ntpq -np
>      remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay
> offset  jitter
> ==============================================================================
>  131.138.201.208 .LOCL.           1 u  954 1024  377    1.000
> -260370  39.102
>

The blank in front of the host means according to the docs :
Discarded due to high stratum and/or failed sanity checks.

The 377 means that the server is perfectly reachable

The -260370 means that your system clock is 260370 seconds
behind (or ahaead, I always get mixed up, sorry) to
that of the NTP server. That's about 3 days.

This might be your problem. I don't know if your system is
confused, or your time server, but you should investigate that.
ntp usually refuses to synchronize time to a server that's more than
1000 seconds (from the top of my head)  off.

Check the TCP/IP manual on using ntpdate, and consider adding it to
tcpip$ntp_systartup.com as well.



> Ntpq –np wouldn’t work on 2 other systems with a symbol not found
> (tcpip$symbols was executed.)  Their versions though are:
>

ntpq works at least since TCPIP 5.4 so something else is wrong.
No real idea, if I were you, I would assume I did something wrong,
but you are hopefully more sure of yourself than I am.