For some reason we have a resin device that is always reverting to 2017-10-02 UTC today when it should be 2017-10-07.
It’s messing up a lot of audit calculations. I manually set the date a couple of times today via date -s - which temporarily worked then i check back a few hours later to find it has reverted. We have several devices in the field and this is the only one that has done that. Thanks in advance.
Hi, thank you for your report.
Have a few questions:
1 - what device type is this?
2 - What resinOS version is it running?
3 - Is this device deployed in the same local network as the others you are mentioning?
4- Are there any restrictions in that network? Please note the network requirements here: https://docs.resin.io/deployment/network/2.0.0/#network-requirements
Thank you
Device Type Raspberry Pi 3
Resin OS 2.3.0+rev1 (prod)
Different Network
ntp http https open
–ntp
0.resinio.pool.ntp.org [198.58.110.84] 123 (ntp) open
–http
[216.58.217.196] 80 (http) open
–https
[216.58.217.196] 443 (https) open
Sorry for abbreviated commands above the editor would only allow 2 links in this text box
Thanks
–dns
www.google.com [172.217.4.132] 53 (domain) open
root@702c5be-702c5be:/usr# nc -zvu time1.google.com 123
time1.google.com [216.239.35.0] 123 (ntp) open
root@702c5be-702c5be:/usr# ntpdate time1.google.com
8 Oct 01:46:52 ntpdate[2522]: no server suitable for synchronization found
root@702c5be-702c5be:/usr# ^C
root@702c5be-702c5be:/usr# ntpdate -vd
8 Oct 01:49:06 ntpdate[2549]: ntpdate 4.2.6p5@1.2349-o Fri Jul 22 17:59:27 UTC 2016 (1)
8 Oct 01:49:06 ntpdate[2549]: no servers can be used, exiting
Hey @coffmantech, can you please try to synchronize to this server 0.resinio.pool.ntp.org?
It’s the default server that resinOS uses.
same results no matter which ntp server
—netcat shows udp port 123 open to resin ntp…
root@702c5be-702c5be:/usr# nc -zvu 0.resinio.pool.ntp.org 123
DNS fwd/rev mismatch: 0.resinio.pool.ntp.org != 4.144.155.104.bc.googleusercontent.com
DNS fwd/rev mismatch: 0.resinio.pool.ntp.org != srcf-ntp.stanford.edu
DNS fwd/rev mismatch: 0.resinio.pool.ntp.org != time-a.timefreq.bldrdoc.gov
DNS fwd/rev mismatch: 0.resinio.pool.ntp.org != clock.xmission.com
0.resinio.pool.ntp.org [104.155.144.4] 123 (ntp) open
– ntp fail
root@702c5be-702c5be:/usr# ntpdate 0.resinio.pool.ntp.org
9 Oct 17:39:11 ntpdate[1792]: no server suitable for synchronization found
result of dbus ntp sync inquiry
root@702c5be-702c5be:/usr# DBUS_SYSTEM_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/host/run/dbus/system_bus_socket \
dbus-send
–system
–print-reply
–reply-timeout=2000
–type=method_call
–dest=org.freedesktop.timedate1
/org/freedesktop/timedate1
org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.GetAll
string:“org.freedesktop.timedate1”
method return sender=:1.15 → dest=:1.14 reply_serial=2
array [
dict entry(
string “Timezone”
variant string “”
)
dict entry(
string “LocalRTC”
variant boolean false
)
dict entry(
string “CanNTP”
variant boolean true
)
dict entry(
string “NTP”
variant boolean true
)
dict entry(
string “NTPSynchronized”
variant boolean false
)
dict entry(
string “TimeUSec”
variant uint64 1507571195682940
)
dict entry(
string “RTCTimeUSec”
variant uint64 0
)
]
Hey @coffmantech, could you post the log output of the time sync daemon? The following command should do the trick:
$ journalctl -u systemd-timesyncd -e
root@702c5be-702c5be:/usr# journalctl -u systemd-timesyncd -e
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– Logs begin at Mon 2017-10-02 19:27:33 UTC, end at Mon 2017-10-09 18:43:09 UTC. –
nothing in syslog generated from the above command - if there was any expected 
Hey @coffmantech, could you restart the timesync daemon to make it emit some logs with
$ systemctl restart systemd-timesyncd
Then please post the log output of
$ journalctl -u systemd-timesyncd -e
and
$ systemctl status systemd-timesyncd
root@702c5be-702c5be:/usr# journalctl -u systemd-timesyncd -e
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– Logs begin at Mon 2017-10-02 19:27:43 UTC, end at Thu 2017-10-12 14:12:06 UTC. –
Oct 12 14:12:06 702c5be-702c5be systemd[1]: Started Network Time Synchronization.
root@702c5be-702c5be:/usr# systemctl status systemd-timesyncd
● systemd-timesyncd.service - Network Time Synchronization
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service; disabled)
Active: inactive (dead)
Docs: man:systemd-timesyncd.service(8)
^ looks like that may have something to do with it
@coffmantech could you try running the ntpdate -dv 0.resinio.pool.ntp.org so we can get a bit more debug information to work with? Thanks.
root@24b17d8-24b17d8:/usr# ntpdate -dv 0.resinio.pool.ntp.org
13 Oct 19:04:24 ntpdate[3219]: ntpdate 4.2.6p5@1.2349-o Fri Jul 22 17:59:27 UTC 2016 (1)
transmit(69.61.82.106)
transmit(45.33.84.208)
transmit(208.75.89.4)
transmit(107.155.72.138)
transmit(69.61.82.106)
transmit(45.33.84.208)
transmit(208.75.89.4)
transmit(107.155.72.138)
transmit(69.61.82.106)
transmit(45.33.84.208)
transmit(208.75.89.4)
transmit(107.155.72.138)
transmit(69.61.82.106)
transmit(45.33.84.208)
transmit(208.75.89.4)
transmit(107.155.72.138)
transmit(69.61.82.106)
transmit(45.33.84.208)
transmit(208.75.89.4)
transmit(107.155.72.138)
69.61.82.106: Server dropped: no data
45.33.84.208: Server dropped: no data
208.75.89.4: Server dropped: no data
107.155.72.138: Server dropped: no data
server 69.61.82.106, port 123
stratum 0, precision 0, leap 00, trust 000
refid [69.61.82.106], delay 0.00000, dispersion 64.00000
transmitted 4, in filter 4
reference time: 00000000.00000000 Thu, Feb 7 2036 6:28:16.000
originate timestamp: 00000000.00000000 Thu, Feb 7 2036 6:28:16.000
transmit timestamp: dd8b8cbe.bbb114b1 Fri, Oct 13 2017 19:04:30.733
filter delay: 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000
0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000
filter offset: 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
delay 0.00000, dispersion 64.00000
offset 0.000000
server 45.33.84.208, port 123
stratum 0, precision 0, leap 00, trust 000
refid [45.33.84.208], delay 0.00000, dispersion 64.00000
transmitted 4, in filter 4
reference time: 00000000.00000000 Thu, Feb 7 2036 6:28:16.000
originate timestamp: 00000000.00000000 Thu, Feb 7 2036 6:28:16.000
transmit timestamp: dd8b8cbe.eee39066 Fri, Oct 13 2017 19:04:30.933
filter delay: 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000
0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000
filter offset: 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
delay 0.00000, dispersion 64.00000
offset 0.000000
server 208.75.89.4, port 123
stratum 0, precision 0, leap 00, trust 000
refid [208.75.89.4], delay 0.00000, dispersion 64.00000
transmitted 4, in filter 4
reference time: 00000000.00000000 Thu, Feb 7 2036 6:28:16.000
originate timestamp: 00000000.00000000 Thu, Feb 7 2036 6:28:16.000
transmit timestamp: dd8b8cbf.22172c75 Fri, Oct 13 2017 19:04:31.133
filter delay: 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000
0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000
filter offset: 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
delay 0.00000, dispersion 64.00000
offset 0.000000
server 107.155.72.138, port 123
stratum 0, precision 0, leap 00, trust 000
refid [107.155.72.138], delay 0.00000, dispersion 64.00000
transmitted 4, in filter 4
reference time: 00000000.00000000 Thu, Feb 7 2036 6:28:16.000
originate timestamp: 00000000.00000000 Thu, Feb 7 2036 6:28:16.000
transmit timestamp: dd8b8cbf.554a9a31 Fri, Oct 13 2017 19:04:31.333
filter delay: 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000
0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000
filter offset: 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
delay 0.00000, dispersion 64.00000
offset 0.000000
13 Oct 19:04:33 ntpdate[3219]: no server suitable for synchronization found
Hello,
is there a chance that there’s something in your network blocking it?
Is it possible to try from a different network or try to disable any firewalls at least for a while in order to check if your device manages to sync?
…it was apparently. The odd thing is that netcat showed an unblocked connection over udp 123 to the resin timeserver which doesn’t lend confidence to my troubleshooting ability
I’m glad that you found the issue!
Best,
ilias