[ale] NTPD issues

[Ryan Fish]

I have been successfully using ntpd on a RHEL3 ES server for roughly 1.5 months now.  For some yet unknown reason the service just stopped working properly yesterday.  By this, I mean the service will run but will not actually connect to any NTP server I list in ntp.conf.

ntpq -p returns the following:

     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==============================================================================
*LOCAL(0)        LOCAL(0)        10 l    6   64  377    0.000    0.000   0.008
 hickory.cc.colu navobs1.wustl.e  2 u   13   64  377   22.013  -129454 4630.18
 ns1.usg.edu     ntp0.mcs.anl.go  2 u   37   64  377    2.586  -129254 6320.01
 louie.udel.edu  128.4.40.20      2 u   22   64  377   47.435  -129373 5099.01
 rubidium.broad. .GPS.            1 u   46   64  377   38.199  -129208 7104.82


ntpq -d followed by assoc returns the following even after waiting a couple hours:

ind assID status  conf reach auth condition  last_event cnt
===========================================================
  1 59084  9614   yes   yes  none  sys.peer   reachable  1
  2 59085  9014   yes   yes  none    reject   reachable  1
  3 59086  9014   yes   yes  none    reject   reachable  1
  4 59087  9014   yes   yes  none    reject   reachable  1
  5 59088  9014   yes   yes  none    reject   reachable  1

I have stopped, restarted and added more NTP servers but the service never actually starts working as it has and should.

Any ideas???

TIA
- Ryan