Re: NTP Sync Issue Across Tata (Europe)

From: Mark Tinka <mark_at_tinka.africa>
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2023 17:56:42 UTC
So looks like https://www.ntppool.org/scores/197.224.66.40 shows that 
this server is not performing optimally.

Whom, at FreeBSD, can I speak to to either fix this or take this server 
out of the pool until connectivity is improved?

Mark.

On 8/5/23 17:43, Mark Tinka wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I have NTP servers in Europe that are choosing Tata (6453) to get to 
> 0.freebsd.pool.ntp.org which lives on 197.224.66.40:
>
> traceroute -I 0.freebsd.pool.ntp.org
> traceroute to 0.freebsd.pool.ntp.org (197.224.66.40), 64 hops max, 48 
> byte packets
>  1  ae-2-24.er-01-ams.nl.seacomnet.com (105.26.64.13)  0.300 ms 0.301 
> ms  0.215 ms
>  2  ce-0-0-11.cr-01-mrs.fr.seacomnet.com (105.16.8.201)  22.163 ms  
> 22.370 ms  22.084 ms
>  3  ce-0-0-3.br-01-mrs.fr.seacomnet.com (105.16.32.254)  20.230 ms  
> 20.243 ms  20.139 ms
>  4  ix-hge-0-0-0-28.ecore3.emrs2-marseille.as6453.net (80.231.165.52)  
> 21.875 ms  21.679 ms  21.762 ms
>  5  * if-be-3-2.ecore2.emrs2-marseille.as6453.net (195.219.175.0)  
> 42.751 ms *
>  6  if-ae-25-2.tcore1.ldn-london.as6453.net (195.219.175.5) 43.509 ms  
> 43.280 ms  43.353 ms
>  7  195.219.83.158 (195.219.83.158)  203.310 ms  203.452 ms 203.209 ms
>  8  196.20.225.84 (196.20.225.84)  208.289 ms  208.637 ms 208.374 ms
>  9  197.226.230.13 (197.226.230.13)  209.657 ms  209.658 ms 209.830 ms
> 10  197.224.66.40 (197.224.66.40)  208.638 ms  208.632 ms 208.712 ms
>
> NTP is not sync'ing to that address, and sessions stay in an Init state.
>
> Other NTP servers I have in Africa are reaching the same address via 
> local Anycast hosters, and sync'ing just fine.
>
> Anyone else seeing this particular issue across Tata in Europe?
>
> Mark.