[ntp:hackers] Problem loosing associations?

mayer at gis.net mayer at gis.net
Thu Apr 7 10:04:39 PDT 2005


----- Original Message Follows -----
> Hi Hackers,
> 
> I faced a problem with the 1.1367 changeset and as I consider this as
> a  bug, I'd like to hear your (the hackers') oppinions before I post
> it on  the newsgroup. If this is not the correct procedure I would be
> grateful  if you could explain the total noob that I am how I should
> handle these  things in the future.
> 
> The following behavior could be observed:
> 
> - using ntpd 4.20a at 1.1367-o as a service under win2000
> - using 3 pool servers (0.pool.ntp.org, 1.pool.ntp.org, 2.pool.ntp.org
> ,  all with iburst) and local clock (strat 12) as references
> - directly after startup (sporadic, I guess that depends directly on
> the  pool servers that have been selected by DNS rotation) I issue a
> ntpq -p  command:
> 
> C:\>ntpq -p
>      remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset
>   jitter
> ======================================================================
> ========
>  LOCAL(1)        LOCAL(1)        12 l    3   64    1    0.000    0.000
>    0.001
>  212.79.244.34   .LKML.           1 u    -   64    1   85.689  418.370
>    0.969
> ***Association ID 2134 unknown to server
> 
> I directly tried it again and this happened:
> 
> C:\>ntpq -p
> No association ID's returned
> 
> Afterwards, NTP did not recover from this state for over an hour, but 
> was still running. No entries in the eventlog have been produced.
> 
> Any hints? I tried 1.1369 this morning and it worked, but as I said,
> the  problem did no occure at every startup, so I cannot say if it has
> been  fixed. Reviewing the last commitlogs I cannot see what has
> changed, as  the only comments are "Changes from Dave Mills".
> 
> I'll go on and run some tests with the latest version I got and I will
> try to find out more with a debug build, but maybe someone of you 
> already knows whats wrong and could help me out. It's hard to catch 
> something if it only happens from time to time.
> 

Are you running with DHCP addresses and did it change? If so, see Bug
#51
in bugzilla. It's on my list of things to address but it won't be soon.

Danny

> Thank you in advance,
> kind regards,
> 
> Heiko
> 
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