Hello, reading documentation of ntpd version 2.4.6 I understand that: - default average rate is 2^3 = 8 s - default minimum interpacket spacing is 2^1 = 2 s
while reading the documentation for version 2.4.7 I see that: - default average rate is 2^3 = 8 s - default minimum interpacket spacing is 2^2 = 4 s so it seems the trend is to be less permissive with short polling clients. [ By the way, what's the impact on clients using the "iburst" configuration when synchronizing with server not accepting interpacket space shorter than 4 s? ] I just wonder whether it would not be wise when using such stricter timers to avoid using kod feature, just rate-limiting packets: I suspect kod feature could be used by a single server to lead many public NTP servers in a short time to send back kod toward a given target with much less effort when timers become even less permissive. In other words, what's the advantage of the kod with less permissive rate limiting in the Internet environment ? Is kod is even a feature to be used on hosts serving NTP over Internet? Joe. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
