ntp stopped working - here's the workaround (no replies)

Hi

I am running Linux GoFlexNet 3.3.2-kirkwood-dg #1 Mon Apr 23 17:09:27 CDT 2012 armv5tel and noticed that newly copied files to my harddisks connected to my GoFlexNet (smb shares) had shown no date and time anymore in Windows-Explorer.
They were set to 1970-01-01 ...

The GoFlexNet has no HWCLOCK so it had to be ntpd that failed.
Somwhere else on the net I found the advice to remove the ntp-package with 'apt-get purge ntp' and re-install it afterwards.
That guy had the same symptoms I was having.

GoFlexNet:~# ntpq
ntpq>as
ind assid status  conf reach auth condition  last_event cnt
===========================================================
  1 19693  941a   yes   yes  none candidate    sys_peer  1
  2 19694  961a   yes   yes  none  sys.peer    sys_peer  1

querying ntpq with 'as' - whatever that means - showed only: (reach: no) (condition reject) or something similar. (sorry, now that it's working again - I can't post the former results) So it became clear to me that ntpd could not reach any NTP-servers.

after reinstalling ntp I changed only the following lines in /etc/ntp.conf :

server 0.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst
server 1.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst
server 2.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst
server 3.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst

to

#server 0.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst
#server 1.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst
#server 2.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst
#server 3.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst
server fritz.box
server ptbtime1.ptb.de
server ptbtime2.ptb.de

now it works fine again :)

I did not add the lines

restricted ... fritz.box

(one line per server) at the end of ntp.conf as described in this post

phil