Gaining time

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I have a server set as the authoritative time server and am using the
following time servers:

ntp2.usno.navy.mil, time-nw.nist.gov, time-a.nist.gov,
time-b.nist.gov

I've just noticed over the past couple of days that the time is almost 20
minutes fast. I can do a net stop/start w32time and that corrects the
problem. When I noticed the problem earlier in the week, I added the last
three time servers, but to no avail--I was getting 'NTP servers not
responding'. I've searched the KB, but haven't found anything yet. Any
suggestions?

Also, I've been getting event ids: 1566 & 1311. DNS is setup correct--thanks
to this forum and a MCP Mag article. It's periodic, maybe once a week. I had
thought that it was due to lines being down between here (host location) and
the remote office, but it's happening during different times of day and I've
received no complaints during the day time. Could the time error above be
the culprit?
 
Is the server you have configured as the time server the PDC Emulator? It
should only be this server in the root domain that is configured to use an
external time source.
 
Hi Simon,

Thanks for your reply. The time server holds all FSMO roles and the GC. We
have a single domain, with two sites.
 
I was looking through some documentation on Windows Time Service (white
paper) and one thing it mentions is to only configure one time server. Is
that standard practice? I previously had configured several thinking that if
the first didn't respond, time would be synchronized from the second and so
on.
 
I would also use more than one for redundancy so I don't think you have a
problem there. I'm struggling to think of a reason for a 20 minute time
skew, are all your time zones correctly set up?
 
Yes--EST.

It seems to go along okay for a while, then it starts slipping. No events
are logged in Event Viewer. How often would an external time source be
polled for time? Would an Event ID: 11 be logged each time the NTP server
didn't respond? How often would the clients poll for time on the internal
network?
 
I got in this morning and had several Event ID: 11 errors...I'm going to try
completely new time servers.
 
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