Maarten Wiltink wrote: > "Maarten Wiltink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Maarten Wiltink wrote: >> BTW, I am assuming here that the refid is communicated as 32 bits. > > And I just found out that this assumption was wrong; it's a string > after all. >
Just to be clear here. It's only a string when being returned as a response an ntpq query that's returned to ntpq in a NTP Mode 6 packet. The refid that's in an NTP packet as defined by the protocol is still a 32-bit quantity. Danny > That should make it dead easy to pass information about what the value > in it means, should that discussion ever terminate on such a note. > For loop detection, a unique cookie suffices; it doesn't need to be > human-parseable or self-describing or in fact meaningful at all. > > Groetjes, > Maarten Wiltink _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
