[ntp:questions] Are mode 6 responses rate controlled?

2021-05-19 Thread Brian Utterback
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Re: [ntp:questions] [External] : Best method to measure NTP performance/drift. Loopstats or Peerstats

2021-01-29 Thread Brian Utterback
> which is the difference between loopstats and peerstats for evaluating the > drift respect a given timing source? The peerstats file is written each time a new packet is received. Be careful, it represents the what NTP has calculated the information to be using the data from the eight most

[ntp:questions] Does "writevar" work?

2019-01-16 Thread brian utterback
since it looks like I will have to bite the bullet and do that unless someone here can point me to the error of my ways. Thanks. -- All working systems eventually start to exhibit their own agenda. Oracle <http://www.oracle.com> Brian Utterback | Principal Software Engineer Phone: +16038973

[ntp:questions] Many new messages in test results.

2018-08-06 Thread brian utterback
ff=0.03usec m_expr which is 2.99 and n_expr which is 2.102 are not close; diff=0.03usec m_expr which is 2.99 and n_expr which is 2.103 are not close; diff=0.04usec Are these something I need to worry about? -- Oracle <http://www.oracle.com> Brian Utterback | Principa

Re: [ntp:questions] More than one PPS source on Raspberry Pi?

2017-12-04 Thread Brian Utterback
___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions -- Oracle <http://www.oracle.com> Brian Utterback | Principal Software Engineer Phone: +1 6038973049 <tel:+1%206038973049> Oracle Systems Server & Cloud Engi

Re: [ntp:questions] Which time source is ntp using

2017-07-12 Thread Brian Utterback
as the reference clock or the clock at 176.9.72.17 which has the * infront of it? Thanks ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions -- Oracle <http://www.oracle.com> Brian Utterback | Principal Software En

Re: [ntp:questions] what is refid in ntpq -pn [sorta OT: field sizes]

2017-05-11 Thread brian utterback
> address? The width of the field is not the problem. The refid is a field in the packet and is only 32 bits. -- Oracle <http://www.oracle.com> Brian Utterback | Principal Software Engineer Phone: +1 6038973049 <tel:+1%206038973049> Oracle Systems, SPARC & Solaris System Software Engineeri

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP 128ms

2016-10-06 Thread brian utterback
quality GPS with PPS > can be connected to a low latency serial port or other IO connector > on a system running with kernel PPS and NTP API support (most Unix). > With a good sky view this keeps time within us of UTC; use a good > GPSDO (with OCXO) supporting NTP and you can stay wit

Re: [ntp:questions] How to specify interface for multicastclient

2016-01-14 Thread Brian Utterback
On 1/13/2016 11:03 PM, Danny Mayer wrote: On 1/13/2016 4:30 PM, brian utterback wrote: I am sure this has been asked before but I can't find the answer. On a multihomed system, is there anyway to specify which interfaces you want multicastclient to listen on? If so, how. If not, why not? I

[ntp:questions] How to specify interface for multicastclient

2016-01-13 Thread brian utterback
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Re: [ntp:questions] Observation with ntp4.2.8@p4-request inputs

2015-12-14 Thread brian utterback
e what that event is. -- Oracle <http://www.oracle.com> Brian Utterback | Principle Software Engineer Phone: +1 6038973049 <tel:+1%206038973049> Oracle Systems/RPE Solaris Network 1 Oracle Dr. | Nashua, NH 03062 A

Re: [ntp:questions] Observation with ntp4.2.8@p4-request inputs

2015-12-12 Thread brian utterback
mail, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >>> questions-requ...@lists.ntp.org >>> >>> You can reach the person managing the list at >>> questions-ow...@lists.ntp.org >>> >>> When replying, please edit your Subject line so i

Re: [ntp:questions] Observation with ntp4.2.8@p4-request inputs

2015-12-10 Thread brian utterback
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Re: [ntp:questions] ntp4.2.8p3 on Solaris11.2 (Sun Netra-T4)

2015-07-13 Thread brian utterback
? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Regards, T. Aoki ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions -- Oracle http://www.oracle.com Brian Utterback | Principal Software Engineer Phone: +1

Re: [ntp:questions] reachability register

2015-04-14 Thread brian utterback
between the time a request was sent and a reply was received then what you observed is correct. -- Oracle http://www.oracle.com Brian Utterback | Principal Software Engineer Phone: +1 6038973049 tel:+1%206038973049 Oracle Systems/RPE Solaris Network 1 Oracle Dr. | Nashua, NH 03062

Re: [ntp:questions] Proposal: Change the default memlock rlimit to 0

2015-03-15 Thread brian utterback
Just to complicate things, does it really make sense to memlock on a system with receive timestamps and no refclocks? -- Oracle http://www.oracle.com Brian Utterback | Principal Software Engineer Phone: +1 6038973049 tel:+1%206038973049 Oracle Systems/RPE Solaris Network 1 Oracle Dr. | Nashua

Re: [ntp:questions] Writing the drift file

2015-03-06 Thread brian utterback
shutdown. -- Brian Utterback Solaris RPE, Oracle Corporation. Ph:603-262-3916, Em:brian.utterb...@oracle.com ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP offset doesn't change.

2015-02-11 Thread brian utterback
of changing a single constant with any degree of certainty. -- Brian Utterback Solaris RPE, Oracle Corporation. Ph:603-262-3916, Em:brian.utterb...@oracle.com ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-12 Thread Brian Utterback
it is. What is the right thing to do if you have two conflicting standards? Brian Utterback ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-11 Thread brian utterback
best of a bad lot, and depends on your goals. There is no solution that meets all possible goals in this regard. -- Brian Utterback Solaris RPE, Oracle Corporation. Ph:603-262-3916, Em:brian.utterb...@oracle.com ___ questions mailing list questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-11 Thread brian utterback
. It is up to the individual OS leap second implementers to determine the behavior they implemented, which may or may not behave this way. -- Brian Utterback Solaris RPE, Oracle Corporation. Ph:603-262-3916, Em:brian.utterb...@oracle.com ___ questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

2015-01-11 Thread brian utterback
. There are a whole bunch of things that are right for some people and not for others. That is the very reason that there isn't a right thing, because if there was one right thing all the vendors would have fixed their operating systems to do it. -- Brian Utterback Solaris RPE, Oracle Corporation. Ph:603-262

Re: [ntp:questions] What to do for clients less than 4.2.8?

2014-12-24 Thread brian utterback
statement, perhaps as an update to http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ntp_spool/ntp4/NEWS as to what an admin can do to mitigate the problem until an update can be performed and whether or not the same CVE's apply to xntpd? -- Brian Utterback Solaris RPE, Oracle Corporation. Ph:603-262-3916

Re: [ntp:questions] Jesus Christ! - even internet time-sync (NTP) is vulnerable to exploitation?

2014-12-21 Thread brian utterback
sending packets to the NTP servers possibly forming a nasty data loop and taking them off the error. Just my two cents. -- Brian Utterback Solaris RPE, Oracle Corporation. Ph:603-262-3916, Em:brian.utterb...@oracle.com ___ questions mailing list

Re: [ntp:questions] Jesus Christ! - even internet time-sync (NTP) is vulnerable to exploitation?

2014-12-21 Thread brian utterback
On 12/21/2014 11:11 PM, brian utterback wrote: loop and taking them off the error. Just my two cents. Doh! air. -- Brian Utterback Solaris RPE, Oracle Corporation. Ph:603-262-3916, Em:brian.utterb...@oracle.com ___ questions mailing list questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Number of Stratum 1 Stratum 2 Peers

2014-12-08 Thread Brian Utterback
having no server at all. Brian Utterback ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Number of Stratum 1 Stratum 2 Peers

2014-12-04 Thread brian utterback
On 12/3/2014 5:33 PM, William Unruh wrote: On 2014-12-03, Jan Ceuleers jan.ceule...@computer.org wrote: On 12/03/2014 02:58 PM, Brian Utterback wrote: I still think that it takes four to guarantee a majority but I don't have proof of that. Someday I will spend some time to either prove

Re: [ntp:questions] Number of Stratum 1 Stratum 2 Peers

2014-12-04 Thread Brian Utterback
On 12/4/2014 12:13 PM, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 10:46:17AM -0500, brian utterback wrote: I remain unconvinced. I believe that it takes three correct servers to outvote a single falseticker, meaning that if you want to be safe against one of your servers becoming

Re: [ntp:questions] Number of Stratum 1 Stratum 2 Peers

2014-12-03 Thread Brian Utterback
of that. Someday I will spend some time to either prove or disprove it, but alas, time is something I don't generally have extra to spend. But you are better off with one than two from an operational standpoint. Brian Utterback ___ questions mailing list

Re: [ntp:questions] problem with pool directive?

2014-11-11 Thread Brian Utterback
I believe that the number of pool servers used is determined by the minclock and maxclock parameters. Brian Utterback. ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP server not reducing polling interval on upstream hosts

2014-10-18 Thread Brian Utterback
that you refuse to accept that it isn't a bug. Perhaps the better tack to take is that both sides accept it as problematic and try to understand why and how to fix it. Brian Utterback ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http

Re: [ntp:questions] Embedded solutions

2014-07-10 Thread Brian Utterback
. You still have the keys problem. Keys authenticate the NTP server to the client. How would you manage keys? Brian Utterback ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Embedded solutions

2014-07-10 Thread Brian Utterback
On 7/10/2014 9:26 AM, Paul wrote: On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Brian Utterback brian.utterb...@oracle.com wrote: You still have the keys problem. Keys authenticate the NTP server to the client. How would you manage keys? Are you asking if it supports autokey? It currently doesn't

Re: [ntp:questions] Has anyone thought about this?

2014-04-14 Thread Brian Utterback
frequency and it's actual frequency is smaller than the difference between system clock's adjusted frequency and its actual frequency. Brian Utterback On 4/14/2014 9:34 AM, Charles Elliott wrote: Ntpd on my system uses a frequency offset (according to NTP Plotter, thank you very much) of -26

Re: [ntp:questions] Has anyone thought about this?

2014-04-10 Thread Brian Utterback
in the 2nd ed, but I don't have access to that one. Brian Utterback ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Three NTP servers, one strange IP-address in 'refid'

2014-04-01 Thread Brian Utterback
will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. - Martin Golding ---| Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Oracle Corporation. Ph:603-262-3916, Em:brian.utterb...@oracle.com ___ questions mailing

Re: [ntp:questions] Problem facing with Ntp client Configuration

2014-03-28 Thread Brian Utterback
of the eight you think are optimal. If one server is really enough, then one out of eight is enough. If four servers are enough, then four out of eight samples are enough. Brian Utterback ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http

Re: [ntp:questions] [Android+NTP] synchronise time with millisecond accuracy

2014-03-26 Thread Brian Utterback
calculated offset of the moment was. Essentially you went from an offset of -0.284+/-0.037 to an offset of 0.131+/-14.759 I don't think that is an improvement. Brian Utterback ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo

Re: [ntp:questions] CVE-2013-5211 and xntpd

2014-02-07 Thread Brian Utterback
On 2/7/2014 3:14 AM, Martin Burnicki wrote: Harlan Stenn schrieb: Brian Utterback writes: I did test it and saw indications that it would be vulnerable. I don't have exploit code so I didn't actually get an exploit going, but I saw enough to convince me. If xntpd responds to the mode 7

[ntp:questions] CVE-2013-5211 and xntpd

2014-02-06 Thread Brian Utterback
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Re: [ntp:questions] CVE-2013-5211 and xntpd

2014-02-06 Thread Brian Utterback
are vulnerable, it says that all versions of *ntpd* before 4.2.7 are vulnerable. Brian Utterback ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] CVE-2013-5211 and xntpd

2014-02-06 Thread Brian Utterback
On 02/06/14 17:05, Dennis Ferguson wrote: On 6 Feb, 2014, at 07:39 , Danny Mayer ma...@pdmconsulting.net wrote: On 2/6/2014 9:26 AM, Brian Utterback wrote: I recently received a question from a customer about CVE-201305211, the monlist amplification attack. Specifically they asked

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP request retry?

2014-01-27 Thread Brian Utterback
(delay), but I thought that treating the first packet as a throw away would be better because otherwise you end up with half the number of good samples in the billboard. Anyway, nothing every came of the discussion. Brian Utterback ___ questions mailing

Re: [ntp:questions] strange ntptrace behaviour on different ntp-clients

2014-01-23 Thread Brian Utterback
What version of Solaris were you using? If you were using Solaris 10, then the ntptrace command is the old version that uses the ref field as the IPv4 address of the server. Since it does not rely on control or private packets it can work even if noquery was specified on one of the servers in

Re: [ntp:questions] simple nt.conf cases for ntp-client

2014-01-23 Thread Brian Utterback
amount of server stickiness built in to suppress clock hopping, but it can still occur, especially if your servers reboot frequently. Clock hopping can destabilize the frequency correction feedback loop which in turn can lead to increasingly large clock offsets. Not what you want. Brian Utterback

Re: [ntp:questions] strange ntptrace behaviour on different ntp-clients

2014-01-23 Thread Brian Utterback
, RES_NOQUERY. Brian Utterback ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] better rate limiting against amplification attacks?

2014-01-16 Thread Brian Utterback
and it failed to get any servers. I added: restrict source and it still failed. I commented out the first two restrict lines and then it worked. Brian Utterback ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] better rate limiting against amplification attacks?

2014-01-15 Thread Brian Utterback
as you say, then you've got your wish already. Brian Utterback ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] better rate limiting against amplification attacks?

2013-12-27 Thread Brian Utterback
of peers? Brian Utterback ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] better rate limiting against amplification attacks?

2013-12-27 Thread Brian Utterback
On 12/27/2013 11:49 AM, Rob wrote: Brian Utterback brian.utterb...@oracle.com wrote: On 12/27/2013 5:24 AM, Rob wrote: What is the NTP developers position on implementation of better rate limiting options in ntpd? There are more and more amplification attacks against ntp servers, similar

Re: [ntp:questions] better rate limiting against amplification attacks?

2013-12-27 Thread Brian Utterback
On 12/27/2013 5:50 PM, Jochen Bern wrote: On 27 Dec 2013, Brian Utterback wrote: Is a peer list really a big problem? It generally doesn't make sense to have much beyond 10 peers. Are there really a lot of servers with a lot of peers? If you mean to ask whether such a setup exists at all

Re: [ntp:questions] Pool returns IPv6 address to IPv4 query

2013-11-20 Thread Brian Utterback
On 11/20/2013 4:44 AM, Rob wrote: Brian Utterback brian.utterb...@oracle.com wrote: On 11/19/2013 3:40 PM, Danny Mayer wrote: You should not be using literal IP addresses of either flavor without also setting the AI_NUMERICHOST flag otherwise it tries to do a DNS lookup. That's poorly written

Re: [ntp:questions] Pool returns IPv6 address to IPv4 query

2013-11-19 Thread Brian Utterback
-- blu Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. - Martin Golding ---| Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Oracle Corporation. Ph:603-262-3916, Em:brian.utterb

Re: [ntp:questions] Pool returns IPv6 address to IPv4 query

2013-11-19 Thread Brian Utterback
gethostbyname and inet_aton, each of which you might expect to have different results in that case. We had people citing two RFC's and the ipng working group mailing list. Great fun. Brian utterback Brian Utterback ___ questions mailing list questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Pool returns IPv6 address to IPv4 query

2013-11-19 Thread Brian Utterback
stack or any combination. But no matter what they did there were edge cases that needed to work differently. Brian Utterback ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Strange refid

2013-11-12 Thread Brian Utterback
turned on would be a good idea. -- blu Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. - Martin Golding ---| Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Oracle Corporation. Ph:603

Re: [ntp:questions] Strange refid

2013-11-12 Thread Brian Utterback
On 11/12/2013 1:02 PM, Gary Johnson wrote: On 2013-11-12, John Hasler wrote: Brian Utterback writes: However, it begs the question of why somebody thought that printing M- before characters with the high order bit turned on would be a good idea. ASCII characters with the high bit turned

Re: [ntp:questions] DDOS attacks and NTP

2013-11-05 Thread Brian Utterback
with one server, you could swamp it. But as I said that was fixed quickly and years ago. Brian Utterback. ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] NTPD silently not tracking

2013-09-01 Thread Brian Utterback
, then I think they have a right to expect that you have done what you can to eliminate the problem yourself including upgrading to the latest available version if possible, or at least to take it under advisement if it is suggested to you and to explain why you can't if it isn't possible. Brian

Re: [ntp:questions] Raspberry Pi error in PPM offset

2013-08-24 Thread Brian Utterback
of making that calculation. Another problem is that the actual frequency usually isn't static. It changes with the temperature among other factors. So even if you got the kernel to use the correct value, it would still be off some of the time. Brian Utterback

Re: [ntp:questions] Order of servers in ntp.conf

2013-08-14 Thread Brian Utterback
I don't understand how you get the idea that your system is synchronizing with only one server when the messages you posted show it synchronizing with 6 servers. Do you mean that it is synchronizing with one server at a time? That is what it is supposed to do. There is a combining step in the

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP makes a time jump

2013-07-11 Thread Brian Utterback
if they peered with one another. Realistically, are your systems really likely to drift to 15 seconds offset between connections? How long do they get disconnected for? Brian Utterback ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpd is spawning multiple processes

2013-07-02 Thread Brian Utterback
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Re: [ntp:questions] ntpd is spawning multiple processes

2013-06-28 Thread Brian Utterback
You apparently have a cron job with a typo in it. Instead of running ntpq each hour, it is running ntpd. Those command line arguments are for ntpq, not ntpd. On 6/28/2013 12:22 PM, bunty21.tiw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi We are using cloud based Red hat 5.5 Tikanga OS. After installing the ntp

[ntp:questions] what is the meaning of dash in the type field of ntpq -p output?

2013-06-22 Thread Brian Utterback
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Re: [ntp:questions] time to sync vs ptp?

2013-05-31 Thread Brian Utterback
There was a bug in the start up of NTP that caused it to set the frequency before setting the first offset. This meant that the kernel PLL treated the first offset correction as a drift in time since the time the frequency was set (seconds before) which introduced a sudden jerk to the loop,

Re: [ntp:questions] client configuration: it's sufficient 3 servers ?

2013-05-24 Thread Brian Utterback
the point that it is not the case that two different servers may have different time, it is the case that they *will* have different time. The only question is by how much. Obviously, the closer together they are, the less the impact will be. Brian Utterback

Re: [ntp:questions] client configuration: it's sufficient 3 servers ?

2013-05-24 Thread Brian Utterback
Peering them is a good idea, but isn't going to help, since they will each view the other as being of a higher stratum then their upstream servers. On 5/24/2013 10:30 AM, Rob wrote: Brian Utterback brian.utterb...@oracle.com wrote: On 5/24/2013 5:27 AM, Rob wrote: claim that 2 servers

Re: [ntp:questions] Offset is always increasing

2013-05-21 Thread Brian Utterback
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Re: [ntp:questions] symmetric active while configurion uses server mode, RFC compliant or not?

2013-05-20 Thread Brian Utterback
that. It might be an artifact of the looping. On 5/19/2013 5:28 AM, Joe the Shmoe wrote: On 18/05/2013 20:10, Brian Utterback wrote: On 5/18/2013 3:14 AM, Joe the Shmoe wrote: [...] This is non-intuitive and arguably incorrect according to the RFC, but it is the programmed behavior

Re: [ntp:questions] symmetric active while configurion uses server mode, RFC compliant or not?

2013-05-18 Thread Brian Utterback
On 5/18/2013 3:14 AM, Joe the Shmoe wrote: Zooming on these I see two types of requests: - received symmetric active from unconfigured hosts, which get answered by symmetric passive from my host. Here the point I do not understand is that the NTP server is configured in a way to Deny packets

Re: [ntp:questions] ntp system without a rtc

2013-05-14 Thread Brian Utterback
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Re: [ntp:questions] NTP servers in INIT state

2013-04-24 Thread Brian Utterback
is highly appreciated. I suspect that the code in this case is not valid. It is probably set to zero because no packet has ever been received from the server. Please email me directly, I think I may have some information about your issue. Brian Utterback br...@utterback.org

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpd 4.2.6p5 will not synchronize to broadcast servers

2013-04-24 Thread Brian Utterback
I think this is a duplicate of bug 629. On 4/24/2013 9:54 PM, Harlan Stenn wrote: Gary, The short answer is I don't know. I believe we have successfully used broadcast clients in 4.2.6. Please see if ntp-dev works for you though - if there is a problem there we want to fix that before

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdate function

2013-04-16 Thread Brian Utterback
maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. - Martin Golding ---| Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Oracle Corporation. Ph:603-262-3916, Em:brian.utterb...@oracle.com

Re: [ntp:questions] dispersion has high peak when reference clock first appears

2013-04-09 Thread Brian Utterback
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Re: [ntp:questions] high jitter on serial gps causes big time offsets

2013-04-09 Thread Brian Utterback
the PPS. -- blu Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. - Martin Golding ---| Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Oracle Corporation. Ph:603-262-3916

Re: [ntp:questions] Extracting ntpq like information programmatically

2013-03-29 Thread Brian Utterback
the test (say by running ntpdate), but then you are introducing a new source of error so it doesn't help you. As unruh said, if there was a way to improve the accuracy of the measurement over the network like that, NTP would already be doing it. Brian Utterback

Re: [ntp:questions] Extracting ntpq like information programmatically

2013-03-29 Thread Brian Utterback
On 03/29/13 15:27, Claudio Carbone wrote: On 29/03/13 19:26, Brian Utterback wrote: As unruh said, if there was a way to improve the accuracy of the measurement over the network like that, NTP would already be doing it. If so why doesn't the offset oscillate? If NTP were a real compensation

Re: [ntp:questions] outlyer / falseticker

2013-03-07 Thread Brian Utterback
Okay, it can be a little obtuse, especially if you don't know the references. The two specific references that are being used here are the reality television show Survivor and The Byzantine Generals Problem, an algorithm for detecting misbehaving parts of a system, in this case an NTP server.

Re: [ntp:questions] multiple instances of NTP on different interfaces

2013-03-06 Thread Brian Utterback
On 3/5/2013 11:25 PM, Abu Abdullah wrote: On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 11:18 PM, Brian Utterback brian.utterb...@oracle.com mailto:brian.utterb...@oracle.com wrote: Based on what is being requested, I can suggest one way to accomplish it, but it involves using an OS feature, rather than

Re: [ntp:questions] multiple instances of NTP on different interfaces

2013-03-05 Thread Brian Utterback
Based on what is being requested, I can suggest one way to accomplish it, but it involves using an OS feature, rather than using an NTP feature. If it is feasible to run Oracle Solaris on the system in question, you could use the Solaris Zones feature to do what you want. You could have one

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP architecture with virtual machines for stratum-2 ?

2013-03-04 Thread Brian Utterback
On 3/4/2013 3:20 PM, unruh wrote: Should our stratum-2 servers all be connected to ntp1-4, or is it better to have server1-ntp1, server2-ntp2, etc.. to make sure they don't all run off the same clock source? i.e. should we for server1 have ntp.conf with: If source a gives good time, why

Re: [ntp:questions] PPS only configuration

2013-02-22 Thread Brian Utterback
On 2/22/2013 1:36 AM, unruh wrote: On 2013-02-22, Brian Utterback brian.utterb...@oracle.com wrote: On 2/21/2013 7:00 PM, unruh wrote: Note that rmc 5322 is 2008. Many of the news readers are older than that. Another reason to refer to the RFC I quoted, which dates back to the 90's. So

Re: [ntp:questions] PPS only configuration

2013-02-21 Thread Brian Utterback
(for various values of too long, mostly between 60 and 80 characters or wider than your screen) then the problem is with the reader you are using. Period. I note that the message above with the 1500 character line of text is content type text/plain with format flowed. Brian Utterback

Re: [ntp:questions] PPS only configuration

2013-02-21 Thread Brian Utterback
Having said that, I note that Ed Mischanko's mailer is not sending text/plain flowed. So unruh has a point in that case. On 2/21/2013 8:38 AM, Brian Utterback wrote: Hate to get into a religious war here, but there is a hard, factual standard here. RFC2646 which defines the MIME type text

Re: [ntp:questions] PPS only configuration

2013-02-21 Thread Brian Utterback
, Brian Utterback wrote: Having said that, I note that Ed Mischanko's mailer is not sending text/plain flowed. So unruh has a point in that case. On 2/21/2013 8:38 AM, Brian Utterback wrote: Hate to get into a religious war here, but there is a hard, factual standard here. RFC2646 which defines

Re: [ntp:questions] PPS only configuration

2013-02-21 Thread Brian Utterback
On 02/21/13 14:45, E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists wrote: Brian Utterback wrote: RFC2646 Obsoleted by RFC3676 Missed that because they changed the title. However, the new RFC doesn't change the behavior I was referring to. -- blu Always code as if the guy

Re: [ntp:questions] PPS only configuration

2013-02-21 Thread Brian Utterback
On 2/21/2013 7:00 PM, unruh wrote: Note that rmc 5322 is 2008. Many of the news readers are older than that. Another reason to refer to the RFC I quoted, which dates back to the 90's. So, it would appear that is the poster uses format=flowed test, then your reader should handle it. But if

Re: [ntp:questions] PPS only configuration

2013-01-15 Thread Brian Utterback
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Re: [ntp:questions] how to configure ntp for conditional use of servers, depending on my LAN status?

2013-01-10 Thread Brian Utterback
You don't need to have the info in config 1, there is no point. If you are not on a network then ntp doesn't have any clients and you don't want it changing the clock. The cleanest way to do the other two is to have two separate config files and restart ntpd with the correct config file

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP client syncs successfully with NTP server within local network but not with the NTP pool servers

2013-01-09 Thread Brian Utterback
On 1/9/2013 12:41 AM, Arpith Nayak wrote: Adding my .conf file: driftfile /tmp/ntp.drift/ server 0.pool.ntp.org server 1.pool.ntp.org server 2.pool.ntp.org server 3.pool.ntp.org Adding ntpq -p data: [Thu Feb 10 12:55:51 root@root-ubuntu:~]# ntpq -p 0.pool.ntp.org remote refid

Re: [ntp:questions] How to establish a public timeserver on linux? (ntp.conf)

2012-12-26 Thread Brian Utterback
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Re: [ntp:questions] A proposal to use NIC launch time support to improve NTP

2012-12-20 Thread Brian Utterback
On 12/20/2012 6:25 AM, Ulf Samuelsson wrote: Yes there is. The ntpd program has to set a timestamp in the outgoing packet and then specify the launchtime when it writes the packet. The goal here is to have the timestamp written in the packet exactly match the time the packet actually hits the

Re: [ntp:questions] A proposal to use NIC launch time support to improve NTP

2012-12-19 Thread Brian Utterback
On 12/18/2012 7:05 PM, Ulf Samuelsson wrote: Brian Utterback brian.utterb...@oracle.com wrote: On 12/13/2012 5:00 AM, Jonatan Walck wrote: This is going to be very hard to get it to be useful. Looking at the specs for the card, the timestamp you give is relative to a clock that is internal

Re: [ntp:questions] A proposal to use NIC launch time support to improve NTP

2012-12-19 Thread Brian Utterback
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Re: [ntp:questions] A proposal to use NIC launch time support to improve NTP

2012-12-19 Thread Brian Utterback
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Re: [ntp:questions] A proposal to use NIC launch time support to improve NTP

2012-12-19 Thread Brian Utterback
On 12/19/12 16:49, Brian Utterback wrote: Generally, the PPS signal does not go over the PCI bus. The kernel gets its PPS signal via the serial port. You would therefore like the controller to have its own PPS signal input, but I don't see one in the datasheet. So you are back to worrying

Re: [ntp:questions] Panic stop captured

2012-12-14 Thread Brian Utterback
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Re: [ntp:questions] A proposal to use NIC launch time support to improve NTP

2012-12-13 Thread Brian Utterback
On 12/13/2012 5:00 AM, Jonatan Walck wrote: This is going to be very hard to get it to be useful. Looking at the specs for the card, the timestamp you give is relative to a clock that is internal to the controller, and is only accurate to the nearest second. That is, it is like the PPS in that

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