I tried to play around with ntpd and multicast client settings. What I found is the following: The ntpd initially does nothing. When it receives the first multicast packet it does what it is supposed to, starts syncing with the sender of the packet. After this has happened for each multicast packet sent,I see a poll of the multicast sender ntpdc -s tells me it is synced to the sender with local address set to the machine instead of 224.0.1.1 I used ntpd -m -b -A -c none as well as a ntp.conf with a multicastclient entry. The same settings work on OSX, Solaris8 and a RedHat machine Package is the current ntp-4.2.0.20040617-r2 I use ipv6 which might be the only relevant of the items I found in IUSE
try the other versions of ntp in portage starting with 4.2.0.20050303
what is the order anyway? 20050303 and then -r2 or is 20050303 the newest?
last i checked 20050303 > 20040617
I updated to 20050303 still does not work TCPDump shows: 10:06:54.968467 IP 10.1.1.1.123 > 224.0.1.1.123: NTPv4 bcast, strat 4, poll 6, prec -20 10:06:55.300424 IP 10.1.1.5.123 > 10.1.1.1.123: NTPv4 client, strat 0, poll 6, prec -20 10:06:55.300561 IP 10.1.1.1.123 > 10.1.1.5.123: NTPv4 server, strat 4, poll 6, prec -20 in a repeating pattern ntpdc -s shows remote local st poll reach delay offset disp =============================================================== ======== *crom.netage.de 10.1.1.5 4 64 77 0.00027 -0.005249 0.66238 On the other systems the local entry is 224.0.1.1
can you file a bug upstream please ? https://ntp.isc.org/bugs/index.cgi
