ntpdate - rate limit response from server

[balanga]

Any idea what this 'rate limit response from server' means or what I can do to stop it?

 

[sko]

what I can do to stop it?

If you're hitting a single server/pool from lots of machines inside your network: don't do that. Set up your own NTP server(s) for your internal network. This is usually always a good idea for any network bigger than ~5 machines to keep all of them in sync even while your uplink is down.

If you only have very few machines on a single IP and still facing rate limiting (and double-checked none of your machines excessively queries the NTP server), just use another public server/pool...

 

[balanga]

I guess I'll try setting up my own NTP server. I use a pfSense router, so that may be the best place to install one, or maybe on my FreeNAS box if that has an NTP plugin...

 

[balanga]

I've tried setting up my pfSense box as an NTP server, but must be configuring it wrong because I keep getting this msg.


(I know, I know, I shouldn't mention pfSense on this board but just a happened to find my old thread here when I did a search)

 

[gpw928]

To start the diagnosis, we need to see the contents of /etc/ntp.conf and the output of ntpq -pn.