[ntp:questions] Error returned from NTPTRACE 4.2

Conan conan at nortel.com
Thu Apr 27 12:52:07 UTC 2006


Hi

We have 3 internal GPS time sources; CA, US & Europe. The North American 
units are both Spectracom , EU is very old TrueTime. I'm seeing error 
"***Request timed out" when our latest Solaris & Linux desktops try to run 
NTPTRACE ver4.2 against either Spectrocom.

# ntptrace
localhost: stratum 3, offset -0.000148, root distance 0.002669
zcars0vs: stratum 2, offset 0.000222, root distance 0.002522
47.129.242.109: timed out, nothing received
***Request timed out

Seems odd that NTPTRACE is returning the IP, since all ntp.conf references 
use DNS aliases.

If I query the time sources directly, same error:

# ntptrace sputnik-1.ca.nortel.com
zcarh00x.ca.nortel.com: timed out, nothing received
***Request timed out

# ntptrace sputnik-2.us.nortel.com
zsclyntp.us.nortel.com: timed out, nothing received
***Request timed out

# ntptrace sputnik-3.europe.nortel.com
sputnik-3.europe.nortel.com: stratum 1, offset 0.000007, root distance 
0.000000, refid 'GPS'


I've confirmed all the time sources are working properly, in fact the 
clinets have no problem syncing with any of them.
# ntpq -c pe
     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset 
jitter
==============================================================================
+zcarh00x        .GPS.            1 u   49  256   17    1.906   -0.390 
0.278
*zsclyntp        .GPS.            1 u   43   64   37  103.143   -0.719 
0.535
+whars09p        .GPS.            1 u   45  256   17   95.408   -0.084 
0.657


Its not a routing or DNS mis-config.  I've confirmed NTPTRACE 4.1.1 works 
properly with same ntp.conf.

Has anyone else seen this problem?  Suggested solutions?

Thanks
Conan 





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