Hi all,I SSH'd into my NAS this morning because nothing seemed to working properly, several restarts, troubleshooting steps and the lot and everything seemed to configured fine but failing to work!Whilst ssh'ing again i noticed the top line:Last login: Sun Aug 23 11:18:00 1992 from x1992!! No wonder nothing was working!Manually NTP'd to my fav time server:ntpdate -b pool.ntp.org8 Apr 11:20:01 ntpdate[3635]: step time server 89.234.64.77 offset 619315201.329109 secEverything was working again...Rebooted and the sytem went back to 1992!Checked the NTP servers I had setup, turns out they were default netgear time servers...ntpdate -b time-c.netgear.com23 Aug 11:29:32 ntpdate[4363]: step time server 209.249.181.22 offset -0.028500 secntpdate -b time-a.netgear.com23 Aug 11:29:44 ntpdate[4486]: step time server 209.249.181.22 offset -0.000826 secSo yes, netgear's NTP servers are borked!Now using pool.ntp.orghttp://www.pool.ntp.org/en/Anyone else have this problem?

Yes on my pro (just posted it on a different thread).Though not my Duo and NV+, which used different NTP (the Pro used time-a.netgear.com, the others uses time-e.netgear.com, which apparently is ok).

Yes, same here. Transmission was hosed as a result and loads of my timestamps are now off.They still haven't fixed the problem, and several hours have passed. Pretty lame.I've now changed the NTP servers to use a more reliable source.

I had some script issues (all my backups were done in 1992 ;) ) and noticed the same thing.Even if I switched to different netgear time servers, the time was off by an hour. I had noticed this previously but missed the daylight savings issue. I've also switched to the same time server(s) used in Windows instead.[Edit] My back up script has been off my an hour for weeks. I don't have a specific date for when it started, but it was running an hour behind schedule. As what would seem to be a completely unrelated note, iTunes was starting to delete songs when I would sync them to my iPod. :shock: There didn't seem to be any rhyme or reason as to how, but various songs would get deleted during the sync process. After resetting my time server to a source that provides the correct time (no longer off by an hour, much less in 1992!) that issue disappeared. So there is apparently something in iTunes that was being thrown off by the one hour difference between my local computer time and the netgear server time.Go figure.Without the "1992" issue, I never would have figured this out.

How did you change which time servers you were using?I can't find ntp.confEDIT: don't worry I found the right file

Just hit this as well, switched to http://www.pool.ntp.org/zone/north-americaI wish companies would just use the public ntp pool instead of running their own services. Though Netgear does have some neat history with NTP ;)http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/

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mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Apr 09, 2012
Perhaps it is a bad idea. It can be set on the Sparc and x86 devices and as Wish found it can be changed via SSH. However normally the NTP server is one of those options that would be confusing for most home users.
StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Apr 09, 2012
time-a.netgear.com is back in sync.

mdgm-ntgr

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Apr 09, 2012

Hmmm I just checked using the command line and it still appears to be out of sync to me:


ntpdate -q time-a.netgear.com
server 209.249.181.22, stratum 1, offset -619315200.044853, delay 0.24173
10 Apr 00:26:42 ntpdate[11237]: step time server 209.249.181.22 offset -619315200.044853 sec

StephenB

Guru - Experienced User

Apr 09, 2012

mdgm wrote:
Hmmm I just checked using the command line and it still appears to be out of sync to me:
ntpdate -q time-a.netgear.com
server 209.249.181.22, stratum 1, offset -619315200.044853, delay 0.24173
10 Apr 00:26:42 ntpdate[11237]: step time server 209.249.181.22 offset -619315200.044853 sec

mdgm wrote:
Hmmm I just checked using the command line and it still appears to be out of sync to me: ntpdate -q time-a.netgear.com server 209.249.181.22, stratum 1, offset -619315200.044853, delay 0.24173 10 Apr 00:26:42 ntpdate[11237]: step time server 209.249.181.22 offset -619315200.044853 sec

Curious. My NTV550 is configured to use time-a.netgear.com, and when I synchronized it the time was still correct.

However, it still is off, so I suspect that the NTV550 ignored the crazy time.

DeeCee521
Aspirant
Apr 09, 2012
mine was still off, as of about 5 minutes ago and I had to manually change my ultra 4+ to the pool.ntp.org set. I manually applied the time so it was close and applied that change. Then I changed it to the pool servers and applied change. When the pool was applied, it changed by 3 minutes and then received a dialog that the readynas was now in sync with the time server. Hopefully this sticks for a while.

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