RT-AC3200 NTP look-up frequency

[tim]

How do I stop the NTP checks from running every hour?
Once a day will be fine.

Thanks.

 

[RMerlin]

How do I stop the NTP checks from running every hour?
Once a day will be fine.

Thanks.

It's a bug. You will have to upgrade to a newer FW version (assuming Asus did fix it since then).

 

[tim]

Ah right. Thanks.

 

[M.G.]

I'm on the latest official 378.6975 FW and still get hourly log entries:

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Jul 18 17:59:57 ntp: start NTP update
Jul 18 18:59:57 ntp: start NTP update

Edit: I downloaded the source to the FW and took a look at ntp.c. It checks the timezone for the substring "DST", and if so, forces updates every hour, or if not, it updates every 12 hours. In the web gui, I changed my timezone to GMT, and have not had an ntp update in several hours. The source gives no reason why it would need to do that.

 

[aublumberg]

Seems reduced to twice a day in 378.7177. I'm on GMT+8 time zone.

Jul 19 21:53:05 ntp: start NTP update
Jul 20 09:53:03 ntp: start NTP update
Jul 20 21:53:00 ntp: start NTP update

 

[System Error Message]

Theres no issue having to update every hour since the bandwidth used for NTP is very little and it is good to always have updated time. I use my router (mikrotik) as an NTP server with LAN NTP sync hijack and syncs with google NTP. I do the same for DNS that i can create a local domain and even google chrome will work with it if you use DNS hijack.

Its too bad ASUS didnt add their popular scheduler to their NTP client.