[outages] NTP Issues Today

[Colin Johnston]

On 20 Nov 2012, at 15:38, Jeremy Chadwick <jdc at koitsu.org> wrote:

> I'm still waiting for someone who was affected by this to provide
> coherent logs from ntpd showing exactly when the time change happened.
> Getting these, at least on an *IX system, is far from difficult folks.
> 

from firewall ntp logs
Nov 19 09:58:06 [192.168.0.1.128.176] 2012:11:19-09:58:06 ntpd[21385]: ntpd exiting on signal 15
Nov 19 09:58:19 [192.168.0.1.128.176] 2012:11:19-09:58:19 selfmonng[3503]: W check Failed increment ntpd_running counter 3 - 3
Nov 19 09:58:22 [192.168.0.1.128.176] 2012:11:19-09:58:22 selfmonng[3503]: W NOTIFYEVENT Name=ntpd_running Level=INFO Id=147 sent
Nov 19 09:58:22 [192.168.0.1.128.176] 2012:11:19-09:58:22 selfmonng[3503]: W triggerAction: 'cmd'
Nov 19 09:58:22 [192.168.0.1.128.176] 2012:11:19-09:58:22 selfmonng[3503]: W actionCmd(+):  '/var/mdw/scripts/ntp restart'
Nov 19 09:58:25 [192.168.0.1.128.176] 2012:11:19-09:58:25 ntpd[24120]: ntpd 4.2.4p8 at 1.1612-o Tue Feb  2 21:46:54 UTC 2010 (1)
Nov 19 09:58:25 [192.168.0.1.128.176] 2012:11:19-09:58:25 selfmonng[3503]: W child returned status: exit='0' signal='0'
Nov 19 09:58:35 [192.168.0.1.128.176] 2012:11:19-09:58:35 ntpd[24121]: kernel time sync status change 0001

was sync'd to 84.25.175.98, stratum 2 at the time I believe

Colin