SG-1100 incorrect date and time

ahoeppner

Fair question. I'm looking at the Current date/time on the System Information widget on my dashboard.

Rico

Whats is Status > NTP showing?

-Rico

ahoeppner

Sorry, typing this out on mobile so I can't just post a screenshot.

Status - pool placeholder
Server - 0.pfsense.pool.
Ref id - .POOL.
Stratum - 16
Type - p
When - -
Poll - 64
Reach/delay/offset/jitter - all have value of 0

Thanks!
Alex

jahonix

The server should probably be: 0.pfsense.pool.ntp.org

stephenw10

The server pool will always show zeros there but you should see a list of servers below that with real stats:

[2.4.4-RELEASE][root@1100.stevew.lan]/root: ntpq -pn
     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==============================================================================
 0.pfsense.pool. .POOL.          16 p    -   64    0    0.000    0.000   0.000
+51.89.151.183   212.83.158.83    3 u   21   64  377    5.929    0.574   2.234
+178.62.16.103   195.66.241.2     2 u  133   64  374    6.727    0.428   0.250
-129.250.35.250  249.224.99.213   2 u  140   64  144    5.944    0.618   2.510
+134.0.16.1      195.66.241.2     2 u  127  256  377    6.569    0.400   0.494
-212.110.158.29  89.109.251.21    2 u   36  128  375   82.876    2.610   3.562
-213.199.225.30  212.160.106.226  2 u  117  128  361   37.243    1.190   0.318
-193.219.61.120  .MRS.            1 u  239  128  376   45.356   -3.015   0.319
-195.154.223.198 193.11.166.36    2 u  103  128  363   17.216    2.754   0.675
*194.80.204.184  .GPS.            1 u   56   64  377   16.168    0.387   0.261

At least some of those should show reach 377 after some minutes. Otherwise you have a connectivity issue.

Steve

ahoeppner

Just got back home and was able to grab some screenshots that should (hopefully) clarify my current setup:

System Information widget showing (incorrect) date/time:
Screen Shot 2019-06-30 at 12.06.45.png

Systems > General > Localization:
Screen Shot 2019-06-30 at 12.07.07.png

NTP Status:
Screen Shot 2019-06-30 at 12.07.39.png

NTP Server Config:
Screen Shot 2019-06-30 at 12.08.28.png

If I'm missing something key here to post, please tell me!

Thank you!
Alex

stephenw10

If you don't see a list of actual peers then it's not able to reach the pool that is set. Your settings look like the defaults which should be good.

Try resolving 0.pfsense.pool.ntp.org in Diag > DNS Lookup.

Steve

ahoeppner

Thanks Steve. I performed the DNS lookup and got 4 A records returned:

Results
Result Record type
74.117.214.2 A
72.14.183.39 A
52.6.160.3 A
50.205.244.25 A

The nameservers were 127.0.0.1 and a local pihole I have running on my network. Since the DNS lookup was successful, I'm assuming the use of my own DNS server here is irrelevant?

ahoeppner

If it helps, here are the last 50 log entries for the NTP server. It looks like its attempting to connect?

Last 50 NTP Log Entries. (Maximum 50)

May 20 06:45:04 	ntpd 	27062 	Soliciting pool server 45.76.244.202
May 20 06:43:58 	ntpd 	27062 	Soliciting pool server 72.14.183.39
May 20 06:42:52 	ntpd 	27062 	Soliciting pool server 52.6.160.3
May 20 06:41:45 	ntpd 	27062 	Soliciting pool server 50.205.244.25
May 20 06:40:38 	ntpd 	27062 	Soliciting pool server 74.117.214.2
May 20 06:39:32 	ntpd 	27062 	Soliciting pool server 54.39.23.64
May 20 06:38:28 	ntpd 	27062 	Soliciting pool server 197.80.150.123
May 20 06:37:21 	ntpd 	27062 	Soliciting pool server 195.43.74.123
May 20 06:36:16 	ntpd 	27062 	Soliciting pool server 131.188.3.221
May 20 06:35:11 	ntpd 	27062 	Soliciting pool server 213.239.217.214
May 20 06:34:06 	ntpd 	27062 	Soliciting pool server 188.68.36.203
May 20 06:32:59 	ntpd 	27062 	Soliciting pool server 178.79.152.182
May 20 06:31:53 	ntpd 	27062 	Soliciting pool server 95.216.78.223
May 20 06:31:52 	ntpd 	27062 	kernel reports TIME_ERROR: 0x4041: Clock Unsynchronized
May 20 06:31:52 	ntpd 	27062 	kernel reports TIME_ERROR: 0x4041: Clock Unsynchronized
May 20 06:31:52 	ntpd 	27062 	Listening on routing socket on fd #31 for interface updates
May 20 06:31:52 	ntpd 	27062 	Listen normally on 10 mvneta0.4092 [fe80::f2ad:4eff:fe09:124a%12]:123
May 20 06:31:52 	ntpd 	27062 	Listen normally on 9 mvneta0.4091 [fe80::1:1%11]:123
May 20 06:31:52 	ntpd 	27062 	Listen normally on 8 mvneta0.4091 192.168.86.1:123
May 20 06:31:52 	ntpd 	27062 	Listen normally on 7 mvneta0.4090 198.74.7.58:123
May 20 06:31:52 	ntpd 	27062 	Listen normally on 6 mvneta0.4090 [fe80::f2ad:4eff:fe09:124a%10]:123
May 20 06:31:52 	ntpd 	27062 	Listen normally on 5 lo0 127.0.0.1:123
May 20 06:31:52 	ntpd 	27062 	Listen normally on 4 lo0 [fe80::1%7]:123
May 20 06:31:52 	ntpd 	27062 	Listen normally on 3 lo0 [::1]:123
May 20 06:31:52 	ntpd 	27062 	Listen normally on 2 mvneta0 [fe80::f2ad:4eff:fe09:124a%1]:123
May 20 06:31:52 	ntpd 	27062 	Listen and drop on 1 v4wildcard 0.0.0.0:123
May 20 06:31:52 	ntpd 	27062 	Listen and drop on 0 v6wildcard [::]:123
May 20 06:31:52 	ntpd 	27062 	gps base set to 2019-05-05 (week 2052)
May 20 06:31:52 	ntpd 	27062 	basedate set to 2019-04-29
May 20 06:31:52 	ntpd 	27062 	proto: precision = 0.400 usec (-21)
May 20 06:31:52 	ntpd 	26843 	Command line: /usr/local/sbin/ntpd -g -c /var/etc/ntpd.conf -p /var/run/ntpd.pid
May 20 06:31:52 	ntpd 	26843 	ntpd 4.2.8p13@1.3847-o Sat May 11 02:49:14 UTC 2019 (1): Starting
May 20 06:31:52 	ntpd 	59815 	ntpd exiting on signal 15 (Terminated)
May 20 06:31:12 	ntpd 	59815 	Soliciting pool server 68.183.65.77
May 20 06:30:07 	ntpd 	59815 	Soliciting pool server 193.1.12.167
May 20 06:29:00 	ntpd 	59815 	Soliciting pool server 104.236.52.16
May 20 06:27:53 	ntpd 	59815 	Soliciting pool server 72.30.35.89
May 20 06:26:47 	ntpd 	59815 	Soliciting pool server 4.53.160.75
May 20 06:25:40 	ntpd 	59815 	Soliciting pool server 195.21.137.209
May 20 06:24:35 	ntpd 	59815 	Soliciting pool server 72.30.35.89
May 20 06:23:30 	ntpd 	59815 	Soliciting pool server 173.230.144.109
May 20 06:22:24 	ntpd 	59815 	Soliciting pool server 129.250.35.251
May 20 06:21:19 	ntpd 	59815 	Soliciting pool server 107.181.191.189
May 20 06:20:12 	ntpd 	59815 	Soliciting pool server 85.25.210.112
May 20 06:19:08 	ntpd 	59815 	Soliciting pool server 198.50.238.156
May 20 06:18:01 	ntpd 	59815 	Soliciting pool server 194.58.200.20
May 20 06:16:56 	ntpd 	59815 	Soliciting pool server 88.198.34.135
May 20 06:15:52 	ntpd 	59815 	Soliciting pool server 194.192.112.20
May 20 06:14:45 	ntpd 	59815 	Soliciting pool server 139.112.153.38
May 20 06:13:40 	ntpd 	59815 	Soliciting pool server 74.6.168.72

stephenw10

Yeah that seems fine. So it clearly can't actually reach those for some reason.

Try to ping or traceroute to one of those IPs from the firewall.

It is also possible that ntp is rejecting the peers because the time is so far out. You can manually set the date/time at the command line using the date command.
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=date

Steve

ahoeppner

Good suggestion.

This seems odd to me. I can ping / traceroute any of the A record IPs returned just fine along with those in the log. Steve you're correct it certainly must be a connectivity issue somewhere as I'm able to set the clock manually per your suggestion, but accompanying the newly set date in the command output is the message "date: can't reach time daemon, time set locally"

I'm not sure where to look from here, but it would appear all is functioning normally from the pfSense / sg-1100 side.

Guess my only option is to stick with the manually entered time for now.

jahonix

@ahoeppner said in SG-1100 incorrect date and time:

Guess my only option is to stick with the manually entered time for now.

That was in idea to get you into the ballpark. Being too far off the pool time may result in a no-sync.

You can try to use your local gov's NTP servers as well
time-a-g.nist.gov 129.6.15.28 (Gaithersburg, Maryland)
time-b-g.nist.gov 129.6.15.29
time-c-g.nist.gov 129.6.15.30
time-a-b.nist.gov 132.163.96.1 (Boulder, Colorado)
time-b-b.nist.gov 132.163.96.2
time-c-b.nist.gov 132.163.96.3

AFAIK those are not pools so it makes more sense to use their IPs instead of the IPs of an ntp.org pool.