[mythtv-users] Fwd: Re: ntp stratum two time servers

[Tom Dexter]

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Matthew McClement <mythtv at macker.co.uk> wrote:
> Tom Dexter wrote:
>  > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >*snip*
>
> >>
>  >>   ntpdate mythback
>  >>   1 May 07:00:05 ntpdate[17489]: no server suitable for synchronization found
>  >>
>  >>  What am I missing?
>  >>
>  >>  Tom
>  >>
>  >
>  > I just tried:
>  >
>  > ntpdate -u -d mythback
>  >
>  > ...and the error I'm getting is "192.168.1.51: Server dropped: strata too high"
>
>  Wait 15-30 minutes, it takes a while for your server to "upgrade" itself
>  to be "strata of server you're sync'ing against"+1. If it's still not
>  usable then there's likely a sync issue on mythback itself.
>
>  You can usually diagnose the problem by looking at the output of
>  ntptrace and/or ntpq(pe, as and rv commands).
>
>  Matt
>
>
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Yup...after waiting a bit I can sync to it and it acts as a strata 3.  Thanks!

Tom