Problems with NTP

UNIX SCO
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Hy,
I'm having problems with NTP synchronisation on one of the machines wich runs SCO 5.0.5Eb.

It should synchronize with one RedHat machine in local network, but it doesn't (all other machines are fine). It just falls behind after a while.

In /etc/ntp.conf i have only this entry:
server <IP_of_local_NTP_server>

(Should it be peer instead of server?)

There is no driftfile entry and also /etc/ntp.drift file does not exist.

I assume that this entry in ntp.conf is correct, but what about ntp.drift file and why does this fallback happen?

Tnx in advance!

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I've just had a look at a server I have (Openserver 5.0.4) and, as on yours, there's no drift file. Also /etc/ntp.conf lists only peers:

peer ntp0.ja.net
peer ntp1.ja.net prefer
peer pool.uk.ntp.org

As you can see I have tagged one of them as 'prefered' as I've found it to be more reliable than its '0' buddy and set a generic pool as a backstop.

All of my servers (NetWare, Windows, SuSE, Ubuntu and SCO) sync to the same Janet servers and keep perfect time.

I hope that's of some use.
Jon