[time-nuts] Leap-second capture for chronyd NTP

Sun Jan 1 02:18:46 UTC 2017

Here is my observation for NTP 'chronyd'. The NTP setup is based on 1PPS 
(from Trimble TB) and kernel extension (pps_core)

As leap second event happens, I noticed the "system clock" (NTP machine) 
was one second behind.
Then it took around 16 minutes for 'chronyd' to gradually align system 
clock to match the time. Now everything ticking in tact.

Here is par of 'chronyd' log. I noticed four column changed from "+" to 
"N"

2016-12-31 23:41:24 72.38.129.202   +  2 111 111 1111  10 10 1.00 
-2.252e-03  1.788e-02  1.063e-06  2.440e-02  2.791e-02
2016-12-31 23:46:37 206.108.0.132   +  2 111 111 1111  10  9 0.08  
3.681e-03  1.391e-02  1.126e-06  7.019e-04  5.044e-01
2016-12-31 23:49:17 192.95.25.79    +  3 111 111 1111  10 60 0.83 
-4.016e-03  1.607e-02  1.607e-06  1.222e-02  3.143e-02
2016-12-31 23:55:43 132.163.4.102   +  1 111 111 1111  10 10 0.99  
2.366e-03  4.196e-02  1.073e-06  0.000e+00  0.000e+00
========================================================================================================================
    Date (UTC) Time     IP Address   L St 123 567 ABCD  LP RP Score    
Offset  Peer del. Peer disp.  Root del. Root disp.
========================================================================================================================
2016-12-31 23:58:43 72.38.129.202   +  2 111 111 1111  10 10 1.00 
-3.424e-03  1.650e-02  1.062e-06  2.440e-02  4.349e-02
2017-01-01 00:03:57 206.108.0.132   N  2 111 111 1111  10 10 0.33  
2.033e-03  1.051e-02  1.124e-06  7.019e-04  5.200e-01
2017-01-01 00:06:38 192.95.25.79    N  3 111 111 1111  10 60 0.78 
-3.597e-03  1.616e-02  2.116e-06  1.222e-02  2.022e-02
2017-01-01 00:13:08 132.163.4.102   N  1 111 111 1111  10 10 1.00  
2.218e-03  4.040e-02  1.059e-06  0.000e+00  0.000e+00
2017-01-01 00:15:58 72.38.129.202   N  2 111 111 1111  10 10 1.00 
-1.609e-03  2.219e-02  1.063e-06  2.483e-02  3.131e-02

For the LH 5.0 - it took the snapshot.
http://www.patoka.ca/OCXO/leap_sec.gif

Alsom I noticed that LH 5.0 watch is little bit behind of the 'xclok' 
watch translated from NTP (and from this link https://uhr.ptb.de/).

Regards,
Vlad

On 2016-12-31 20:55, Magnus Danielson wrote:
> Good evening David,
> 
> On 01/01/2017 02:27 AM, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) wrote:
>> On 1 January 2017 at 01:00, Magnus Danielson 
>> <magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Fellow time-nuts,
>>> 
>>> While not fancy by any means, my laptop captured the leap-second 
>>> being
>>> inserted by this message in the /var/log/syslog:
>>> Jan  1 00:59:59 greytop kernel: [78458.839942] Clock: inserting leap
>>> second 23:59:60 UTC
>>> 
>> 
>> Noting reported on my Sun Ultra 27 running OpenSolaris.
>> 
>> Dec 31 23:55:02 hawk sendmail[4016]: [ID 801593 mail.info] 
>> uBVNt2jv004015:
>> to=<root at hawk.local>, ctladdr=<root at hawk.local> (0/0), delay=00:00:00,
>> xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=30730, relay=local, dsn=2.0.0, 
>> stat=Sent
>> Jan  1 00:00:02 hawk sendmail[4055]: [ID 801593 mail.info] 
>> v01002rm004055:
>> from=root, size=319, class=0, nrcpts=1,
>> msgid=<201701010000.v01002rm004055 at hawk.local>, relay=root at localhost
> 
> What NTP is this?
> 
> There is security patches to be made to older NTPs.
> I had to shut down xntpd on several solaris machines to make them
> safe, as there was no way of configure them to become safe. That was a
> couple of years ago.
> 
>> 
>> This OS has not been updated for years
>> 
>> drkirkby at hawk:~$ cat /etc/release
>>                        OpenSolaris Development snv_134 X86
>>            Copyright 2010 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
>>                         Use is subject to license terms.
>>                              Assembled 01 March 2010
> 
> Ehm. While off-topic, let me tell you that we had to shut down the
> last Solaris machine we had on the computer club because we concluded
> that there where tools designed to target that generation of Solaris
> machines and take them over. It should not see public internet if
> powered on.
> 
> The network is increasingly hostile, so patch your machines, and don't
> let any machines sit on public network unless you can patch them
> regularly and also do that.
> 
> Cheers,
> Magnus
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-- 
WBW,

V.P.