[ntp:questions] Possible error with autokey documentation
Adam Chou
adam.chou at gmail.com
Mon Aug 4 15:10:43 UTC 2014
On Sunday, August 3, 2014 8:54:43 PM UTC-6, Harlan Stenn wrote:
> Adam Chou writes:
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> > First off, I'm not entirely certain if it's a problem with the documentation
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> > or just the way I'm implementing IFF autokey.
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> > I'm running RHEL 6.3 x86_64 with ntpd 4.2.4p8
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> That is Really Old Software. Many changes and improvements have been
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> made to how things work since then.
Oh, I intend to upgrade to a newer version ASAP. Unfortunately, my current contract requires me to complete with the current version of ntpd. Once this contract is up, I'm intend to upgrade it.
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> > The issue I'm having is in this section: https://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Sup
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> > port/ConfiguringAutokeyFourTwoFour#Section_6.8.3.4.1.
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> > Specifically, the section that says:
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> > "You must create an ntpkey_iff_client sym-link to activate IFF. You
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> > may set this sym-link to point to any file in the keysdir. Such as:
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> > ln -s ntpkey_host_client ntpkey_iff_client"
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> > I can't find any mention about needing to do that in the man page for
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> > ntp-keygen. Furthermore, when I create the symlink, my cryptostats
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> > shows:
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> > "error 10e opcode 82070000"
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> > running ntpd -D4 displays:
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> > "peer x.x.x.x event 'bad_or_missing_group_key' (0x10e) status 'unreach, conf,
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> > auth, 1 event, event_14' (0xe01e)"
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> > Needless to say, my client isn't able to get time from the
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> > server. However, when I remove that symlink, time syncs correctly.
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> > Since the wiki page seems pretty assertive on needing that symlink,
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> > I'm not sure if I did something wrong or if it is actually an issue
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> > with that symlink. But even if I did do something wrong, the
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> > documentation doesn't mention a use case where that symlink will break
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> > ntp.
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> > btw, sorry I didn't post more info. This system is on a network not
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> > connected to the Internet. I have to type out everything.
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> You might get more information if you crank up the debugging level a bit.
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> Can you get support from RH for your problem?
Sorry, I probably wasn't very clear with what I was asking for. I've got it working now so I don't really need help with that. I was more curious to see if someone might be able to confirm my experience and/or explain why the documentation isn't entirely correct. If anything, I think what should be updated is the documentation on the support site.
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> Harlan Stenn <stenn at ntp.org>
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