AF:
NF:0
PS:10
SRH:1
SFN:
DSR:
MID:<20090506095528.5277ecbb@ripper.onstor.net>
CFG:
PT:0
S:andy.sharp@onstor.com
RQ:
SSV:mail.onstor.net
NSV:
SSH:
R:<acooke@css.glasshouse.com>,<dl-cstech@onstor.com>
MAID:1
X-Sylpheed-Privacy-System:
X-Sylpheed-Sign:0
SCF:#mh/Mailbox/sent
RMID:#imap/andys@onstor.net@exch1.onstor.net/INBOX	0	200905061333.n46DXhL01086@mailhost-rtp.css.glasshouse.com
X-Sylpheed-End-Special-Headers: 1
Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 09:56:02 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: "Alan Cooke (Glasshouse)" <acooke@css.glasshouse.com>
Cc: dl-cstech <dl-cstech@onstor.com>
Subject: Re: HP-UX system as an NTP server - any known problems? Case 12303
Message-ID: <20090506095602.30c895e5@ripper.onstor.net>
In-Reply-To: <200905061333.n46DXhL01086@mailhost-rtp.css.glasshouse.com>
References: <200905061333.n46DXhL01086@mailhost-rtp.css.glasshouse.com>
Organization: Onstor
X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.8.20; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Wed, 6 May 2009 06:33:48 -0700 "Alan Cooke (Glasshouse)"
<acooke@css.glasshouse.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> I was on a webex today with a system with various problems =E2=80=93 one =
of
> which was trying to use an NTP server. ( MTI SPA =E2=80=93 case 12303 ) T=
wo
> systems in a cluster had been previously using only time sourced from
> one of the Bobcats itself. The customer was trying to use an HP-UX
> NTP server and was getting an error message: /usr/local/bin/ntpq:
> read: Connection refused /usr/local/bin/ntpq: read: Connection
> refused I deleted the server entries and added them again. One of the
> NTP servers was an external, real NTP server and one of the bobcats
> latched on to that =E2=80=93 unsurprisingly.
>=20
> The HP-UX one though, after all had settled down, still was not
> selected as even a secondary. Also the IP address for the system it
> would source it=E2=80=99s time from was 0.0.0.0
>=20
> Is there some kind of problem between Bobcat=E2=80=99s BSD unix and HP-UX
> with regards to the NTP service or do you think the HP box is just
> broke?

I'd need to see their configuration and poke around on their network,
but from the small amount of info here, I'd guess they just have the
config wrong, like, they have the wrong IP address for the HPUX box.  I
don't understand the part about the 0.0.0.0, but perhaps they are
trying to get it to use an NTP broadcast?  That would take some manual
configuration of our ntp daemon that our UI doesn't support and I
would highly recommend against trying to do that.

Cheers,

a
