NTP server not working

Balanga

I am unable to make use of pfSense's NTP server.

When running ntpdate 192.168.1.1 (my pfSense box) from a FreeBSD client I get

23 Mar 23:02:39 ntpdate[1510]: no server suitable for synchronization found

The client is running FreeBSD 12.0

pFsense version is 2.3.5-RELEASE-p2 (amd64)

I do not have any pfsense time servers listed as Time Servers

Status -> NTP shows

Network Time Protocol Status
Active Peer 178.79.152.182 87.242.168.84 2 u 108 512 377 28.625 0.124 15.183
Candidate 130.88.212.143 193.62.22.90 2 u 29 512 377 35.735 -0.339 1.269
Candidate 31.31.74.35 147.231.2.6 2 u 26 512 377 50.618 2.294 0.788
Outlier 46.182.18.245 192.53.103.108 2 u 323 512 377 51.124 -1.298 10.377
Candidate 132.163.96.3 .NIST. 1 u 194 512 377 137.185 0.752 10.841

Is there something missing in my setup?

JKnott

@Balanga said in NTP server not working:

I do not have any pfsense time servers listed as Time Servers

I have 3 different time servers listed.

stephenw10

That should work by default. Either you have not selected ntp to listen on that interface or there are firewall rules blocking the requests.

Steve

johnpoz

@Balanga said in NTP server not working:

pFsense version is 2.3.5-RELEASE-p2 (amd64)
Is there something missing in my setup?

Yeah - your version ;) Update to current.. Its pointless for anyone to spend any time figuring out your problem if you can not be be bothered to be current.. 2.3.5 is EOL.

The whole 2.3 line was warned for over a year that EOL and you should update.
https://www.netgate.com/blog/pfsense-release-2-3-x-eol-reminder.html

Balanga

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johnpoz

You need to update it.... 2.3 is EOL!

Balanga

@johnpoz said in NTP server not working:

@Balanga said in NTP server not working:

pFsense version is 2.3.5-RELEASE-p2 (amd64)
Is there something missing in my setup?

Yeah - your version ;) Update to current.. Its pointless for anyone to spend any time figuring out your problem if you can not be be bothered to be current.. 2.3.5 is EOL.

The whole 2.3 line was warned for over a year that EOL and you should update.
https://www.netgate.com/blog/pfsense-release-2-3-x-eol-reminder.html

This is what I'm told from

Status/Dashboard -> System Information -> Version :-

Version	2.3.5-RELEASE-p2 (amd64) 
built on Thu May 10 15:03:32 CDT 2018 
FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p29 

The system is on the latest version.
Version information updated at 2019-03-24 17:57

johnpoz

And its not current.. 2.4.4p2 is current... 2.3.x is EOL... I showed you the blog post...

What does it show in your update branch

There are plenty of threads on this..

Worse case, take a backup of your config - clean install and restore your backup.

stephenw10

It still should work be default in 2.3.5 but, yeah, if you've found some edge case that somehow doesn't it's not going to be fixed there ever.

Steve