Dennis Hilberg, Jr. wrote: > Richard B. Gilbert wrote: >> Iburst simply causes ntpd to send eight requests to a server at >> intervals of two seconds when it initializes. The eight replies that >> will normally result allow ntpd to fill its filter pipeline and make a >> pretty good guess at what time it is. Subsequent requests are sent at >> the normal poll intervals, ranging from 64 to 1024 seconds. > > Unless the specified peer becomes unreachable, in which case the > eight-packet burst will resume until the peer is reachable. For > ntp-4.2.4p4 anyway. > > Dennis >
It seems as if the code might be improved a little. There's no point in whipping a dead horse! If no reply is received in response to any of the eight initial request packets, it would seem reasonable to do the "exponential back off"; wait one minute and try again, wait two minutes and try again, wait four minutes and try again. . . . _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
