OpenNTPD timing out when performing queries

[deepdish]

Hello,

I am having a very annoying issue trying to get OpenNTPD working on my pfSense box. Essentially I want pfsense to act as an NTP server for my local LAN.

• OpenNTPD is enabled on the LAN and loopback interfaces of pfSense
  – As a precaution, I have also allowed a rule to the firewall itself on udp port 123 from the LAN

• pfSense itself is configured as an NTP client to ntp.pool.org , and is synchronized as well.

• Any query to ntpd on the pfsense box results in the output below:

ntpq -p 10.119.97.61
10.119.97.61: timed out, nothing received
***Request timed out

• When attempting to perform queries from the pfsense box itself is doing the same thing:

[2.0.1-RELEASE][root@pfsense]/root(23): ntpdc
ntpdc> peers
localhost: timed out, nothing received
***Request timed out
ntpdc> monlist
localhost: timed out, nothing received
***Request timed out
ntpdc> sysinfo
localhost: timed out, nothing received
***Request timed out
ntpdc> sysstats
localhost: timed out, nothing received
***Request timed out
ntpdc> exit
[2.0.1-RELEASE][root@pfsense]/root(24):

• I am seeing that ntpd is listening on port 123 udp on loopback on the LAN IP:

udp4      0      0 127.0.0.1.123          .                   
udp4      0      0 10.119.97.61.123      .

• At this moment, I'm stuck. I have been playing around with this for a week and I am not getting anywhere. I would leave the daemon on overnight or for a few days with no improvements.

Am I overlooking something on my configuration?

pfSense version I'm running is:

2.0.1-RELEASE (amd64)
built on Mon Dec 12 18:43:51 EST 2011
FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p6

[deepdish]

To further add to my frustration, there does not appear to be any helpful logs that would assist me further.

[biggsy]

I was curious about this, having tried ntpq myself with the same timeout.

I did some searching and found this thread http://www.monkey.org/openbsd/archive/misc/0408/msg00448.html

It seems, from the first few responses in the very long thread, that openntpd doesn't respond to ntpq and probably never will.

Do you know/suspect your LAN clients aren't sync'ing to pfSense?

[deepdish]

@biggsy:

I was curious about this, having tried ntpq myself with the same timeout.

I did some searching and found this thread http://www.monkey.org/openbsd/archive/misc/0408/msg00448.html

It seems, from the first few responses in the very long thread, that openntpd doesn't respond to ntpq and probably never will.

Do you know/suspect your LAN clients aren't sync'ing to pfSense?

I expected " ntpq -p " to work, but never bothered to use anything else to check if the ntp server is working.

I just performed ntpdate on one of my computers and got some positive feedback:

ntpdate 10.119.97.61
29 Jan 11:38:06 ntpdate[15951]: adjust time server 10.119.97.61 offset -0.004357 sec

I guess this thread can be closed. Would be nice to see what servers the pfSense box is sync'ed to, but I suppose this would suffice.
Thanks for having me .. think outside the box :)