[j-nsp] NTP service

[Luis Eduardo Díaz Zazo]

Hello:

I think the problem does exist. Although Asim and Yi-Kuo suggest the reason
is that 128 seconds difference, if I understood Javier, he already took that
in mind and made himself sure that the difference didn't exist.

I tried it in my company's bench and found the same problem as Javier did.

I think the problem is as follows: while trying to synchronize a juniper to
another juniper, the server always answers with an NTP response packet with
its reference clock field set to zero, according to the packet analysis I
did. So the client doesn't accept it as a good clock. But I tried to
synchronize a juniper to another vendor's router that did answer with an NTP
response packet with a non-zero reference clock and it did synchronize.

I presume it's a software bug in the server. I'm using 5.1R2.4 worldwide.

Unfortunately enough, one can't trace this with juniper's trace flags, since
there isn't any for NTP.

Regards,

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-----Mensaje original-----
De: juniper-nsp-admin@puck.nether.net
[mailto:juniper-nsp-admin@puck.nether.net]En nombre de Javier Alvira
Enviado el: lunes 2 de septiembre de 2002 17:52
Para: juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net
Asunto: [j-nsp] NTP service


Hi all
I would like to know whether there is something special when configuring a
NTP server in a Juniper (M-10, 5.0R1.4). This is what I configured:


time-zone Europe/Lisbon;
ntp

    boot-server 10.128.0.20;
    server 10.128.0.20;
}
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The "monitor traffic interface fe-0/0/0" shows this (10.128.0.20 is the NTP
server, inside customer's network):
15:25:48.737589 Out xx.yy.zzz.44.ntp > 10.128.0.20.ntp:  v3 client strat 0
poll 6 prec -20 [tos 0x10]
15:25:48.745207  In No-L2-hdr 10.128.0.20.ntp > xx.yy.zzz.44.ntp:  v3 server
strat 1 poll 6 prec -19
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But this is the output for "show ntp status":


status=c011 sync_alarm, sync_unspec, 1 event, event_restart,
processor="i386", system="JUNOS5.0R1.4", leap=11, stratum=16,
precision=-20, rootdelay=0.000, rootdispersion=6.105, peer=0,
refid=0.0.0.0, reftime=00000000.00000000  Thu, Feb  7 2036  6:28:16.000,
poll=6, clock=c119f9e3.d22c343b  Fri, Aug 30 2002 15:04:19.820, state=1,
phase=0.000, frequency=0.000, jitter=0.000, stability=0.000
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So it seems it's not working... In fact, the initial difference of 16 secs
(<128) has widened to 36 secs in 4 days...
Any input will be welcome!
Thanks,
Javier