In article CABr8-B7vsi_hGtZ66k_xP5kPzskDA-VaJjJdYeyC9LgVkdn8BA@mail.gmail.com, Jerry Geis geisj@pagestation.com wrote:

I noticed this morning that my ntp time was not correct on machines.

So I manually ran "ntpdate time.apple.com" on my clients, I got 7 May 08:46:43 ntpdate[10550]: no server suitable for synchronization found

then I ran "ntpdate -d time.apple.com" and it worked . filter offset: -163.446 -163.446 -163.446 -163.447 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 delay 0.20570, dispersion 0.00049 offset -163.447341 7 May 08:46:25 ntpdate[10519]: step time server 17.253.2.243 offset -163.447144 sec

then I ran "ntpdate time.apple.com" again and got the above error again.

Any idea what that is about? Why is ntpdate giving the error?

This is on centos 6.6 x86_64 and same result on 3 machines.

Jerry, try "ntpdate -u time.apple.com" and have a look at the -u option in the ntpdate man page. When you use -d, it implicitly sets -u, which your non-"-d" invocation didn't. That's probably the reason for the difference.

Cheers Tony