[HECnet] Multinet 5.5 issues on VMS 7.3 (VAX) under SIMH

[Supratim Sanyal]

Hi Keith,

On 06/23/2019 05:46 AM, Keith Halewood wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Is anybody running the NPTD functionality in Multinet 5.5 on VAX VMS 
> 7.3 (under SIMH)? If so, how did you get it to work. I switched it on 
> with a simple NTP.CONF and tried to query it. The logfile doesn’t 
> change much and I/O counts go up slowly. My attempts to query it 
> usually result in a traceback. I’m a bit concerned by the lack of an 
> NTPDATE command mentioned in the documentation, despite having done a 
> full install. The timezone facility is a bit primitive too.
>

Works okay on multiple SIMH OpenVMS/VAX 7.3 instances. Here is what I get:

$ multinet ntpq -p
      remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay offset  
jitter
==============================================================================
*104.167.106.93  128.233.150.93   2 u   11   64    1   49.723 267.931   
7.813
  pool.ntp.org    .POOL.          16 p    -   64    0    0.000 0.000   7.813
+sanyalnet-cloud 45.73.0.50       2 u   15   64    5   39.625 18.945  12.511
+sanyalnet-cloud 198.166.1.59     2 u   83   64    6   39.535 60.975  51.664
+sanyalnet-cloud 142.3.100.2      2 u  141   64    4   43.671 40.799  23.688
+vps5.ctyme.com  216.218.254.202  2 u   10   64    7  119.906 -27.318  
46.828
+tick.eoni.com   216.228.192.53   2 u    7   64    7   79.618 34.703  28.908
+horp-bsd01.horp 146.186.222.14   2 u    8   64    7   29.949 23.332  36.004
+meanwhile.clfs. 200.98.196.212   2 u   12   64    7   20.000 -3.831  43.376

And here is my MULTINET:NTP.CONF; 10.42.0.0/24, 10.100.0.0/24 and 
10.200.0.0/24 entries are my local subnets with unrestricted access. 
Also I run my own public NTP servers, but any good public servers should 
work. You can just have the pool entry if you want.

$ type multinet:ntp.conf
driftfile MULTINET:NTP.DRIFT
statistics loopstats peerstats clockstats
filegen loopstats file loopstats type day enable
filegen peerstats file peerstats type day enable
filegen clockstats file clockstats type day enable
server sanyalnet-cloud-vps.freeddns.org burst iburst prefer
server sanyalnet-cloud-vps2.freeddns.org burst iburst prefer
server sanyalnet-cloud-vps3.freeddns.org burst iburst prefer
server sanyalnet-cloud-vps4.duckdns.org burst iburst prefer
pool pool.ntp.org iburst
restrict -4 default kod notrap nomodify nopeer noquery limited
restrict -6 default kod notrap nomodify nopeer noquery limited
restrict 127.0.0.1
restrict ::1
restrict source notrap nomodify noquery
restrict 10.42.2.0 mask 255.255.255.0 notrust
restrict 10.100.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0 notrust
restrict 10.200.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0 notrust


> I’m thinking of giving up with it. I have local TCP services on the 
> machines hosting SIMH instances. One of them returns a local time 
> string in VMS format, so I may make use of that in an RDATE-like fashion.
>
> Keith
>
Hope this is of some help.

Best,

Supratim

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