I’d like to challenge!
(This post was recently moved from the IPFire Community to the Development Mailing List) I saw this in the agenda from last week:
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I thought chrony was more for desktops & laptops. Devices that power down and might have a big time jump. And NTP was more for servers or devices that run full-time. The current NTP in IPFire can be easily changed from polling (one per hour / once per day) to non-polling by making a few simple changes to a config file:
disable monitor restrict default nomodify notrap nopeer restrict 127.0.0.1 server $NTP_ADDR_1 prefer server $NTP_ADDR_2 server 127.127.1.0 fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10 driftfile /etc/ntp/drift $NTP_ADDR_1 and _2 are the Primary NTP server and Secondary NTP server from the https://ipfire:444/cgi-bin/time.cgi https://ipfire:444/cgi-bin/time.cgi webgui page.
And by changing the https://ipfire:444/cgi-bin/time.cgi https://ipfire:444/cgi-bin/time.cgi Synchronization to Manually
Anyway, my thought is to make some changes to the current NTP service instead of implementing something new…
Jon
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TL;DR
When NTP is configured differently (Manually polling enabled) it will “correct” on it own:
Oct 6 21:40:01 ipfire ntpdate: Updated drift file. Drift is 0.000 PPM at Tue Oct 6 21:35:43 CDT 2020 Oct 6 23:20:01 ipfire ntpdate: Updated drift file. Drift is -18.986 PPM at Tue Oct 6 23:16:05 CDT 2020 Oct 7 00:20:01 ipfire ntpdate: Updated drift file. Drift is -140.863 PPM at Wed Oct 7 00:16:04 CDT 2020 Oct 7 01:20:01 ipfire ntpdate: Updated drift file. Drift is -210.676 PPM at Wed Oct 7 01:16:04 CDT 2020 Oct 7 02:20:01 ipfire ntpdate: Updated drift file. Drift is -347.531 PPM at Wed Oct 7 02:16:04 CDT 2020 Oct 7 03:20:01 ipfire ntpdate: Updated drift file. Drift is -407.147 PPM at Wed Oct 7 03:16:04 CDT 2020 Oct 7 04:20:01 ipfire ntpdate: Updated drift file. Drift is -414.606 PPM at Wed Oct 7 04:16:04 CDT 2020 Oct 7 05:20:01 ipfire ntpdate: Updated drift file. Drift is -414.826 PPM at Wed Oct 7 05:16:04 CDT 2020
More into:
https://community.ipfire.org/t/odd-ntp-offset-issues-continued/492
