Dave, That was the point I was trying to make. I wasn't making any statements about the reference implementation though since he didn't he didn't tell us what the server was running and he was asking a general question.
Danny On 7/25/2010 1:42 PM, David L. Mills wrote: > Danny, > > > KoD packets have the leap bits set to 3 (unsynchronized); the stratum is > not signficant. The reference implementation sets the stratum to 16 for > the RATE kiss code. However, packet stratum 16 is mapped to stratum 0 as > visible to the monitoring function. Codes like INIT and STEP are used as > labels for associations and used only for monitoring purposes. > > Dave > > Danny Mayer wrote: >> On 7/19/2010 8:43 AM, Christer Eriksson wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> Is an NTP packet with stratum set to 1 ever allowed to contain a kiss of >>> death code? I got a server (NTPv4) that sends NTP packets with stratum 1 and >>> KoD codes like INIT or STEP and I fail to find a confirmation in any RFC >>> relating to version 4 of NTP whether this is allowed or not. >>> >>> >> >> See RFC5905 Section 7.4 for KOD packets. This has nothing to do with >> Stratum. Why would you assume that Stratum 1 is somehow exempt? INIT and >> STEP are just states of the server and it is instructing the client that >> it is not yet ready to deliver accurate timestamps. >> >> Danny >> >> >>> Thanks & Best Regards >>> Christer Eriksson >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> questions mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions >> > _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
