<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks for the PM's offering ideas</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I am tempted to set it back to 0. to debug the offending ntp pool IP, but it was breaking all the backups among other things due to AD sync being more than 5 mins out.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I always use the below config for domain controllers:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default">sc config W32Time start= auto & net start W32Time</div><div class="gmail_default">w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:"<a href="http://0.au.pool.ntp.org">0.au.pool.ntp.org</a> <a href="http://2.au.pool.ntp.org">2.au.pool.ntp.org</a> <a href="http://3.au.pool.ntp.org">3.au.pool.ntp.org</a>" /syncfromflags:manual /reliable:yes /update & w32tm /resync /nowait</div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">One of the replies noted that linux sanity checks by getting ntp time from 4 servers - I wish MS were that smart.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Clearly MS are not using all the configured servers, I suspect they are purely for failover like a DNS client.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I have just changed this site to:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default">w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:"<a href="http://3.au.pool.ntp.org">3.au.pool.ntp.org</a>" /syncfromflags:manual /reliable:yes /update & w32tm /resync /nowait<br></div><div class="gmail_default">So far so good.. still stable</div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">All Domain members of course sync to the DC</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I am not seeing this on any other sites.. all sites are cookie cutter for me</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">event logs confirm ONLY the change... not the server IP :(</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">The system time has changed to 2019-01-31T01:47:11.254922100Z from 2019-01-31T02:18:29.514800000Z.</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">
</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">The system time has changed to 2019-01-31T01:47:11.254000000Z from 2019-01-31T01:47:11.254922100Z.</p></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">The system time has changed to 2019-01-31T03:43:51.747000000Z from 2019-01-31T03:12:32.312621000Z.</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">
</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">The system time has changed to 2019-01-31T03:36:17.703840400Z from 2019-01-31T04:07:36.105000000Z.</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">
</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">The system time has changed to 2019-01-31T03:36:17.703000000Z from 2019-01-31T03:36:17.703840400Z.</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">
</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">The system time has changed to 2019-01-31T05:41:23.075000000Z from 2019-01-31T05:10:04.617935900Z.</p></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">The system time has changed to 2019-01-31T06:01:12.107000000Z from 2019-01-31T06:01:12.107000000Z.</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">
</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">The system time has changed to 2019-01-31T05:30:09.707385800Z from 2019-01-31T06:01:28.112628100Z.</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">
</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">The system time has changed to 2019-01-31T05:30:09.707000000Z from 2019-01-31T05:30:09.707385800Z.</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">
</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">The system time has changed to 2019-01-31T05:39:51.770000000Z from 2019-01-31T05:39:51.770276000Z.</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:9px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-size:9px;margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-size:9px;margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-size:9px;margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="font-size:9px;margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><br></p></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Kindly,</span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:7.5pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">ROY ADAMS<b> | </b></span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:7.5pt;color:gray">P</span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:7.5pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> <a value="+61730405010" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">07 3040 5010</a> | </span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:7.5pt;color:gray">Web:</span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:7.5pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> <a href="http://www.racs.com.au/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.racs.com.au/</a> | </span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:7.5pt;color:gray">Wiki:</span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:7.5pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> <a href="https://ex.racs.com.au:444/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://ex.racs.com.au:444/</a> | e</span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:7.5pt;color:gray">Mail:</span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:7.5pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> <a href="mailto:roy@racs.com.au" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">mailto:roy@racs.com.au</a></span><br></div><div><font color="#eeeeee" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10px">Please never upgrade to the latest Windows 10 - You don’t need the hassle, and I don’t need the work.</span></font><br><font color="#eeeeee" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10px">If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur - Red Adair.</span></font></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:7.5pt"><font color="#eeeeee">Life is a journey through a series of adventures.. Live them, love them, hate them, but never give up on your dreams, desires, and goals.</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:7.5pt"><font color="#eeeeee"><br></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 at 16:13, Nick Stallman <<a href="mailto:nick@agentpoint.com">nick@agentpoint.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Do you know which server specifically? The ntp pools hand out
random NTP server IPs, it's not a fixed server.</p>
<p>I'm not a Windows server admin, but this would likely be why
Linux connects to ~4 NTP servers so it can disregard dodgy
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All, I have a domain controller <b>seemingly</b>
receiving bad time info today from <a href="http://0.au.pool.ntp.org" target="_blank">0.au.pool.ntp.org</a></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Issuing
this confirmed the time was flapping forward 30 mins,
then 30 mins later back to normal:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana,
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server that supplied the bad (then good, then bad,
then good etc) time</font></div>
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from 3</font><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">.<a href="http://au.pool.ntp.org" target="_blank">au.pool.ntp.org</a>.</span></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">1 hour has
passed and so far so good.</span></div>
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<div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">It's
only occurring on
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e</span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:7.5pt;color:gray">Mail:</span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:7.5pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> <a href="mailto:roy@racs.com.au" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">mailto:roy@racs.com.au</a></span><br>
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You don’t need the
hassle, and I don’t
need the work.</span></font><br>
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professional to do
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