Hi all,<div><br></div><div><div>Sometimes the output from check_ntp_time is "Offset unknown" while the ntp server is fine.</div><div><br></div><div>It can stay like that for a while and then comes back to normal.</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>Here's a sample output while the problem was present on the server:</div><div><br></div><div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"><b>[root@bravura plugins]# ./check_ntp_time -v -H <a href="http://windows.foo.com">windows.foo.com</a></b></font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace">sending request to peer 0</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">response from peer 0: offset 1.376408458</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">sending request to peer 0</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace">response from peer 0: offset 1.375704885</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">sending request to peer 0</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">response from peer 0: offset 1.375001431</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace">sending request to peer 0</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">response from peer 0: offset 1.374346972</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">discarding peer 0: flags=3</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace">overall average offset: 0</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">NTP CRITICAL: Offset unknown|</font></div></div><div><br></div><div><b>OS:</b> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.2 (Santiago) 64-bit</div>
<div><b>nagios-plugins:</b> check_ntp_time v1.4.16-29-g3c10 (nagios-plugins 1.4.16)</div><div><br></div><div>Any ideas?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Ruslan</div>