Solaris 11 ntp multicast client - no association IDs returned

[anon]

I have multiple NTP servers which broadcast at 224.0.0.1 and work correctly with multiple Solaris 6 and Solaris 10 clients on our network.

I just installed Solaris 11.1 (both Sparc and x86) and copied /etc/inet/ntp.client to ntp.conf and restarted ntp service, and is now ntp:default is online.


netstat -a |grep ntp yields -

*.ntp Idle
*.ntp Idle
localhost.ntp Idle
elpaso.ntp Idle
169.254.182.77.ntp Idle
ntp.mcast.net.ntp Idle
*.ntp Idle
localhost.ntp Idle
fe80::210:e0ff:fe20:42de.ntp Idle net0


netstat -nr yields -

Routing Table: IPv4
Destination Gateway Flags Ref Use Interface
-------------------- -------------------- ----- ----- ---------- ---------
default 1xx.yy.zz.1 UG 2 439585 net0
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 2 54 lo0
1xx.yy.zz.0 1xx.yy.zz.182 U 8 6149 net0
169.254.182.0 169.254.182.77 U 3 6 net5

Routing Table: IPv6
Destination/Mask Gateway Flags Ref Use If
--------------------------- --------------------------- ----- --- ------- -----
::1 ::1 UH 3 20 lo0
fe80::/10 fe80::210:e0ff:fe20:42de U 2 0 net0


/var/adm/messages - relevant entries -

May 9 09:55:02 hostA ntpd[3469]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] ntpd 4.2....@1.1948-o Thu Aug 30 02:06:35 PDT 2012 (1)

May 9 09:55:02 hostA ntpd[3471]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] proto: precision = 0.250 usec

Don't know if this is significant, but I noticed that on the older systems which work as ntp multicast clients, they have an entry in the routing table which looks like this (which I did not have to add specifically) -

224.0.0.0 1xx.yy.zz.186 U 1 0 nxge0

However, when I manually tried to add a route to 224.0.0.0 in Solaris 11, it complained - network is unreachable.

Any suggestions? Thank you in advance.

[jiml...@dorsai.org]

Solaris 11 default for NTPv4 in ntp:default is "config/no_auth_required=false" .

To over-ride, edit /etc/inet/ntp.conf and add line "disable auth" and restart service.

Or edit service ntp:default and set "config/no_auth_required=true" and restart service.