[OpenIndiana-discuss] ntp woes

[Gary Gendel]

I could use a bit of advice. My OpenIndiana machine can not update it's 
time from the ntp servers.  I noticed that the time was off by a couple 
of minutes.

The machine has two nics:

bge0 - wan
bge1 - lan

and serves as a router for my lan.  All the machines on my lan that use 
ntp, make requests and get results happily except this machine:

$ ntpupdate us.pool.ntp.org
26 Apr 12:29:30 ntpdate[13172]: no server suitable for synchronization found

However, with snoop I see the ntp request and a good response coming 
back from the server.
NTP:  ----- Network Time Protocol -----
NTP:
NTP:  Leap    = 0x0 (OK)
NTP:  Version = 4
NTP:  Mode    = 4 (server)
NTP:  Stratum = 2 (secondary reference)
NTP:  Poll    = 3
NTP:  Precision = 234 seconds
NTP:  Synchronizing distance   = 0x0000.02f4  (0.011536)
NTP:  Synchronizing dispersion = 0x0000.0b11  (0.043228)
NTP:  Reference clock = 64.113.32.5 (nist.netservicesgroup.com)
NTP:  Reference time = 0xd343f237.4edb0b45 (2012-04-26 12:11:35.30803)
NTP:  Originate time = 0xd343f710.0f35701d (2012-04-26 12:32:16.05941)
NTP:  Receive   time = 0xd343f70d.8134a6ad (2012-04-26 12:32:13.50471)
NTP:  Transmit  time = 0xd343f70d.81369de0 (2012-04-26 12:32:13.50474)

$ ntpupdate -d us.pool.ntp.org
spews what looks like a good response from the server.

$ ntpq -p
aways shows all servers in .INIT. state.

My drift file hasn't been updated since July 2011!

I tried binding ntpd to only bge0 and then tried binding it to only bge1 
but that did not change things (I used the -I <interface> option).

Anyone have a clue what to look at next?  My guess it's a conflict 
between my NAT setup and this service running on the same host, but I'm 
stumped what to do next.

Gary