@charliem:
@sporkme:
That's the section under Services->NTP labelled "Access restrictions" with the odd note that says "these options control access to NTP from the WAN", which seems odd as they actually seem to have an effect on LAN clients and I can't imagine anyone adding the WAN interface to the list of IPs without firewalling that off. For completeness, these are the parameters that if I uncheck them allow ntpdate and ntpd to work across all the LAN hosts:
Any idea which one allows the older ntpdate to work? Does the preferred method "ntpd -gq" work for you with the defaults?
Not sure, I can test again at some point, but I've already annoyed people enough with my nagios alerts on ntp skew. :)
@charliem:
The crashing issue persists, so I'm trying your suggestion of commenting out the ntpd restarts in rc.newwanip and rc.newwanipv6. I think all the clock skew that causes is also triggering issues with rekeying on one of my ipsec tunnels, so maybe that will get fixed as well.
Interested in results you see.
So far so good. No ntpd crashes, and it might be too soon to tell, but no IPSEC VPN drops either, which I assume is just a side-effect of more accurate timekeeping.