On 24/05/06, Sam Drinkard <sam at wa4phy.net> wrote: > Have there been any changes to the way ntpd behaves in the past few > updates? Reason I ask, whenever I run the ntpq or ntpdc, I immediately > get a response of Name or service not known. I know things used to work > sometime back, and never saw this kind of stuff. Nothing has changed in > the /etc/ntp.conf file, nor has anything changed in the > /etc/ntp/ntpservers files. According to the changelog of the NTP package nothing's changed since '04! $ rpm -q --changelog ntp | less "Name or service not known" sounds more like a resolution issue to me. Do you by any chance have caching-nameserver installed and had modified /etc/named.conf ? If so a caching-nameserver update may've overwritten your previous modifcations and potentially have broken DNS. Are you using N.pool.ntp.org in /etc/ntp.conf? Can you resolve those hostnames? $ awk '/ntp.org/ { print $NF }' /etc/ntp.conf | xargs -n1 dig +noall +answer Will.