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Date:      Sun, 19 Apr 2015 18:00:53 -0700
From:      Anmol Khirbat <khirbat@gmail.com>
To:        Wolfgang Zenker <wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-mips@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Edge Router Lite: ntpd/ntpdate switch to 2050
Message-ID:  <m24mob1um2.fsf@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150413130309.GA82425@lyxys.ka.sub.org> (Wolfgang Zenker's message of "Mon, 13 Apr 2015 15:03:09 %2B0200")
References:  <20150413130309.GA82425@lyxys.ka.sub.org>

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Wolfgang Zenker <wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> not sure if this is platform related or a generic problem: After the
> recent ntpd update my Edge Router Lite running current has the problem
> that ntpd and ntpdate set the date/time to somewhere in 2050, but only
> if the offset of the system clock is larger than about 0.5 seconds.
>
> Currently running:
> FreeBSD pomona 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #0: Mon Apr 13 03:48:04 CEST 2015     wolfgang@pomona:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/UBQTERL  mips
>
> Problem happened with a few earlier versions after the new ntpd as well.
>

I think this is a problem on all big-endian systems.  I tried mips,
mips64 and powerpc64 using Qemu.

root@:~ # uname -a
FreeBSD  11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #0 9cb51c3(master): Sun Apr 19 21:37:44 UTC 2015     anmol@fbsd8:/usr/home/anmol/obj/mips.mips64/usr/home/anmol/freebsd/sys/MALTA64  mips

root@:~ # date
Mon Apr 20 00:17:01 UTC 2015

root@:~ # /usr/sbin/ntpdate -v time.apple.com
20 Apr 00:17:07 ntpdate[678]: ntpdate 4.2.8p1-a (1)
 6 Aug 08:04:48 ntpdate[678]: step time server 17.253.16.243 offset 205.523809 sec

root@:~ # date
Sat Aug  6 08:04:51 UTC 2050 # <<<<<=====

Looks like usr.sbin/ntp/config.h is wrong.  This seems to fix ntpdate.
I am not sure what a general fix for all possible architectures would look like.

diff --git a/usr.sbin/ntp/config.h b/usr.sbin/ntp/config.h
index b771834..a6ed749 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/ntp/config.h
+++ b/usr.sbin/ntp/config.h
@@ -1586,7 +1586,7 @@ typedef unsigned int      uintptr_t;
 # endif
 #else
 # ifndef WORDS_BIGENDIAN
-/* #  undef WORDS_BIGENDIAN */
+#  define WORDS_BIGENDIAN 1
 # endif
 #endif

Regards,
Anmol



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