[ntp:questions] Re: ntpdsim problems in ntp-4.2.2.p3

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Albert J Sawyer wrote:
> Can someone help me get ntpdsim running right?  The time will not
> synchronize.  At the end of a run with
> ntpdsim -A -C .001 -T 400 -W 1 -c ./ntp.conf
> the last line output is:
>                 T                     T+ERR                  T+ERR+NTP
>            86400.000000         34513621.245209            86400.000000
> 
> By adding -d -d -d to the argument list, and some extra debug output
> messages I found that the clock_select() function always gets 0x400
> failure return from peer_unfit(), which is a Test 11 failure, root
> distance too large.
> 
> A typical line of rawstats has
> 15020 63118.000 192.43.244.18 135.1.121.22 63117.000000000
> 22742575.719312813 22742575.720312811 63117.019083045.
> 
> It seems that the client packet is sent with transmit time from
> ntp_time, but srvr_rply() sets its time stamps from clk_time.  Because
> the server is never accepted by clock_select, ntp_time is never adjusted.
> 
> I got this version in downloaded of ntp-4.2.2p3, ran configure.guess to
> create a directory for sparc-sun-solaris2.8, ran configure to create the
> makefile, compiled
> with gnu tools,  and created a simple ntp.conf:
> 
> disable kernel
> server time.nist.gov iburst
> logfile /home/ajs/public_html/NTP/ntpdsim/ntplog
> driftfile ./ntp.drift
> statsdir ./ntpstats/
> filegen loopstats file loopstats type day enable
> filegen peerstats file peerstats type day enable
> filegen clockstats file clockstats type day enable
> filegen rawstats file rawstats type day enable
> filegen sysstats file sysstats type day enable
> 
> and ran with:
> 
> ntpdsim $* -A -C .001 -T 400 -W 1 -c ./ntp.conf
> 
> Only peerstats and rawstats are created.
> 
> thanks,
> Al Sawyer
> 

What are you hoping to accomplish with ntpdsim??

Most of us use ntpd and find that it synchronizes our clocks quite well.

I believe ntpdsim is a special purpose tool used by theoreticians and 
possibly developers for testing something or other.

Try "ntpd -g".

Unless you are going to be serving time to 100 or more clients, you 
should not be using time.nist.gov or any other stratum 1 server.  See 
the "Rules of Engagement" at 
http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Servers/RulesOfEngagement

Briefly, most stratum 1 servers have hundreds of thousands if not 
millions of clients banging away at them; many with broken 
software/firmware that causes them to poll once per second.  They tend 
to be badly overloaded, to say the least.