Time Sync Problems

Magician · Post by **Magician** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 3:17 am

Okay i posted about this problem earlier on in the month and it was resolved to using a module for anope to synch the clocks and even running NTPd on the servers the ircds are run on. Well we have a little problem.....

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[09:14pm]  Â« global from OperServ: Magician used TSSYNC to sync all server's TS (TS: 1111893303)
[09:15pm]  Â« Unlimited.SmoothIRC.Net : *** Server=Unlimited.SmoothIRC.Net TStime=1111893311 time()=1111893312 TSoffset=0
[09:15pm]  Â« Unlimited.SmoothIRC.Net : *** Server=Vangic.SmoothIRC.Net TStime=1111893309 time()=1111893328 TSoffset=-16
[09:15pm]  Â« Unlimited.SmoothIRC.Net : *** Server=Ultimate.SmoothIRC.Net TStime=1111893310 time()=1111893328 TSoffset=-16
[09:15pm]  Â« Unlimited.SmoothIRC.Net : *** Notice -- TS Control - U:line set time to be 1111893325 (timediff: 0)
[09:15pm]  Â« global from OperServ: Magician used TSSYNC to sync all server's TS (TS: 1111893325)
[09:15pm]  Â« Unlimited.SmoothIRC.Net : *** Server=Unlimited.SmoothIRC.Net TStime=1111893326 time()=1111893328 TSoffset=0
[09:15pm]  Â« Unlimited.SmoothIRC.Net : *** Server=Vangic.SmoothIRC.Net TStime=1111893328 time()=1111893343 TSoffset=-15
[09:15pm]  Â« Unlimited.SmoothIRC.Net : *** Server=Ultimate.SmoothIRC.Net TStime=1111893328 time()=1111893343 TSoffset=-15

Well the admin of the box that ultimate and vangic are run off of doesn't even know what NTPd is?!? I pointed him in the direction of information websites and even where he can download it but he just brushed me off and ignored me. So what do i do? Thanks for your help. All boxes are the latest FreeBSD and all servers are running 3.2.3.
Regards,
Matt

w00t · Post by **w00t** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 4:11 am

Tell them to get a clue? :p

I've actually heard that SVSTIME does nothing, and can actually exacerbate the problems.

Magician · Post by **Magician** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 7:55 am

Well i've tried to point him to a link that explains what NTPd is and where to download it but he ignores me and tells me that he doesn't know what i'm talking about. Is there *anything* else that i can do?

Magician · Post by **Magician** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 7:57 am

I'm also having problems with the ircd dc'ing/splitting from the network... i have no idea if it is shell related or configuration related.

w00t · Post by **w00t** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 8:09 am

Not that I can think of, no. (although there are other programs that can sync time)

w00t · Post by **w00t** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 8:21 am

On that note, I can't understand why bad TS is causing splits. We had 3 servers, all with MAJOR TS issues for months, and we didn't have splits. Just ban issues and stuff