Martin Burnicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Bill,
>Unruh wrote: >> Steve Kostecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>On 2008-09-13, Joseph Gwinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>> Unruh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Harlan Stenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>> >>>>> >Unruh> Did the dynamic keyword ever work? The web docs say that it >>>>> >Unruh> is not yet implimented. >As already mentioned earlier, the keywaord "dynamic" had been introduced >IIRC in 4.2.4. It lets ntpd retry if a server can not be reached initially. >However, since the behaviour with the "dynamic" keyword is what users would >normally expect ntpd to do I have proposed to make the "dynamic" behaviour >the default and obsolete the "dynamic" keyword. Frank Kardel who had >introduced the "dynamic" keyword agreed and implemented the proposed >changes in ntp-dev 4.2.5p38 on 2007-05-26, and he also removed the >description of the keyword from the HTML docs. >Unfortunately Dave Mills who maintains the HTML docs at udel.edu did not >pick up Frank's changes of the HTML docs. The file history for confopt.html >shows that the description of the "dynamic" keyword has been re-added when >confopt.html changes from Dave were pulled in again on 2007-07-23. >I did a backport of Frank's changes for ntp-stable and I also modified the >HTML docs and removed the description of the "dynamic" keyword. Those >changes were picked up in 4.2.4p5. >So if you use the stable version and have a look at the HTML docs which come >with that version this should be OK. I looked at the docs on the official site. >>>>> >I'm pretty sure it works - what documentation says it doesn't? >>>>> >>>>> Some document on ntp.org describing the options in the ntp.conf file. >>>>> I do not want to look for it again-- the docs are incredibly hard to >>>>> search-- one of the problems with making them into an infinite number >>>>> of web pages. >>>> >>>> What I find useful is to use google with a "site:udel.edu" qualifier. >>>> >>>> It would help if the docs entire tree were under ntp.org though. >> >>>The documentation at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/ is the >>>documentation for the current development snapshot of The NTP Reference >>>Implementation (from www.ntp.org). This documentation may be correct >>>for stable releases. >> >>>An archive of documentation for stable releases of The NTP Reference >>>Implementation is located at http://doc.ntp.org/. This archive provides >>>search capabilities powered by ht://dig. >> >>>The documentation contained in this archive is presented in its original >>>form with the exception of the addition of a site-wide searching / >>>navigation tool-bar and an HTML wrapper, which includes the tool bar, >>>for plain-text files and directory listings. >> >>>If you wish to use Google to search the on-line stable release >>>documentation use "site:doc.ntp.org" in your search arguments. >> >> Yes, I went there to search on the word dynamic. I got junk. >Hm, I also tried this (searched for "dynamic site:doc.ntp.org") and got a >couple of hits for 4.2.4, where the "dynamic" keyword is described for >ntpdc and as "server option" in confopt.html. >Since this refers to 4.2.4 but not 4.2.4p5 where it has been obsoleted this >is absolutely correct, and I don't know why you would consider this as >junk. The "junk" was irelevant hits ( about 20 of them to some refclock MX4200 receiver, one to ntpc, The only relevant hit was one with a "relevance factor" or 1 star which was something like the 17th hit out of 23. That is what I call "junk". It often happens when googling I agree. Note I used the search on the doc.ntp.org main page, not a google search. >Martin >-- >Martin Burnicki >Meinberg Funkuhren >Bad Pyrmont >Germany _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
