I’ve been fighting with this for a while, too. Even with all these changes in place, I can’t seem to confirm that ntpd is working properly. Should ‘ntpq -p’ report a list of connected peers with the default config? Every time I try the request times out.
—jason On Friday, July 11, 2014 at 2:17 AM, Joshua M. Clulow via smartos-discuss wrote: > On 11 July 2014 00:02, JJ Stiff via smartos-discuss > <[email protected] > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > Error: Servers/peers specified but none is reachable. > > > This behaviour has been remedied with an upgrade of the NTP software > we ship, and a retooling of the way we generate ntp.conf. I have put > back the fixes, and they will be in the 2014-07-24 build of SmartOS. > > > ------------ Remedy / Workaround ---------- > > Do you have a /opt/custom/smf/ directory with your own startup script? > > If no, see: <A > > href="http://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Administering+the+Global+Zone";>SmartOS > > - Administering the Global Zone</A> > > > > > You do not need to add a postboot script. If you provide the value > "ntp_conf_file=ntp.conf" in your "/usbkey/config" file, and then > provide a custom NTP configuration at "/usbkey/config.inc/ntp.conf", > the system will use _that_ file instead of generating a new one from > the "ntp_hosts" value. > > > This is certainly a bug in the SmartOS distribution. It should be resolved: > > first, by properly loading the servers from the /usbkey/config file; > > second, by identifying multiple pools of servers willing to support the > > smartos.org (http://smartos.org) cause; and third, providing an option to > > specify or select your ntp server on initial setup. > > The primary issue with the generation of the NTP configuration is > essentially resolved. Additionally, we now have a set of official > SmartOS-specific DNS names that we may ship in our default > configuration. This set of names is graciously provided by the NTP > Pool Project, and are: > > 0.smartos.pool.ntp.org (http://0.smartos.pool.ntp.org) > 1.smartos.pool.ntp.org (http://1.smartos.pool.ntp.org) > 2.smartos.pool.ntp.org (http://2.smartos.pool.ntp.org) > 3.smartos.pool.ntp.org (http://3.smartos.pool.ntp.org) > > The new default configuration will make use of these values as of the > 2014-07-24 build of SmartOS. > > > Cheers. > > -- > Joshua M. Clulow > UNIX Admin/Developer > http://blog.sysmgr.org > > > ------------------------------------------- > smartos-discuss > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/24824159-36a67e62 > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > > ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
