On 12/02/2010 11:28 PM, Jelte Jansen wrote:
Since the probe boots a lot faster than my gateway, I guess it never retried NTP. Powercycle fixed it indeed.
So the lesson here is (at least until there is an update that retries ntpdate, or something), if the machine that provides your Internet connection takes a while to boot up, and they are both powered on at the same time, you may need to powercycle your probe.
FWIW, we deployed our probe in our datacenter on a friday and due to a typo in the firewall config the probe didn't receive any responses from the internet. We fixed the firewall and the probe started doing it's thing (pinging, connecting to ripe's infrastructure etc.). So we did not powercycle the probe as it appeared to be working. Later we noticed the grey bars and were told by Antony that we hit the ntp problem. We didn't want to send someone to the datacentre on the weekend and planed to powercycle the probe the next monday. Just before we unplugged the probe we had another look at the graphs and they were fine. It appears the probe will eventually do another ntp request, maybe every 24 hours? It looks like if it's really really a PITA to get to the probe you can just wait a day or so and it will fix itself. (Btw. the probe still has the "original" 3830 firmware so I don't think it has a fix for the ntp problem)
Jelte
regards, florian -- I remember yesterday, but the memory is in my head now. Was yesterday real? Or is it only the memory that is real?