The error was: The peer is unreachable.Įvent ID 142: The time service has stopped advertising as a time source because the local clock is not synchronized.Įvent ID 50: The time service detected a time difference of greater than 5000 milliseconds for 900 seconds. This domain controller will be discarded as a time source and NtpClient will attempt to discover a new domain controller from which to synchronize. (0x80072AFC).Įvent ID 24: Time Provider NtpClient: No valid response has been received from domain controller after 8 attempts to contact it. The error was: The requested name is valid, but no data of the requested type was found. NtpClient will try again in 3473457 minutes and double the reattempt interval thereafter. Run 'w32tm /resync' to force an instant time synchronization.Įvent ID 144: The time service has stopped advertising as a good time source.Įvent ID 131: NtpClient was unable to set a domain peer to use as a time source because of DNS resolution error on ''. Check system event log for other W32time events for more details.
The time service will continue to retry and sync time with its time sources. If the local system is configured to act as a time server for clients, it will stop advertising as a time source to clients.
#MANUALLY CONFIGURE THE AD PDC TO EXTERNAL TIME UPDATE#
The time service will not update the local system time until it is able to synchronize with a time source. If an external time source is not configured or used for this computer, you may choose to disable the NtpClient.Įvent ID 36: The time service has not synchronized the system time for 86400 seconds because none of the time service providers provided a usable time stamp. Otherwise, this machine will function as the authoritative time source in the domain hierarchy. It is recommended that you either configure a reliable time service in the root domain, or manually configure the AD PDC to synchronize with an external time source. So which method is the right one to use, and what address do I use? Does it matter if I'm running Server 2008 R2?Įvent ID 12: Time Provider NtpClient: This machine is configured to use the domain hierarchy to determine its time source, but it is the AD PDC emulator for the domain at the root of the forest, so there is no machine above it in the domain hierarchy to use as a time source. The PDCe had it as well, until I did the reset that the article recommended now it does not have an NtpServer entry. If I look at my secondary DC, it has an NtpServer entry of ,0x9. Even if they did, I'm not sure which address I use. But I'm not sure if they're doing the same thing. Should I use the instructions here () under "Configuring the time service to use an external time source" to set it up? The guy in the article () says to use a script to automate it (w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:”uk.,0×8 ,0×8¿ /syncfromflags:MANUAL /reliable:yes /update). I will give more info on these at the bottom.įrom what I'm seeing, it looks like my PDCe is not pointing to an external source. On the secondary DC: Event IDs 131, 24, 142 (mentioned above), 50, 129. On the primary DC: Event IDs 12, 36, 144 (mentioned above), 131. I am getting other Event ID warnings as well. The other DC has Warning Event ID 142: The time service has stopped advertising as a time source because the local clock is not synchronized. The PDC Emulator DC has Warning Event ID 144: The time service has stopped advertising as a good time source. I looked in the error logs of both DC's and filtered for the Time-Service. Second, my workstations have the same time as the faster DC (are they syncing to it?). So there are a couple of big problems here. It is exactly the same as the workstations, about 8 minutes fast. So I looked at my other DC, which has none of the master roles. The one that serves as the AD PDC Emulator is only 1 minute faster than my phone that seems more reasonable. Eight minutes is a lot of time to be off. I looked at my computer's clock, and it was the same, about 8 minutes ahead of my phone.
That concerned me because cell phone clocks are always synced. I had a user contact me saying that her computer clock is 8 or 9 minutes faster than her cell phone clock.