Aw: Re: Re: [chrony-users] How to use Facebook's NTP-service correctly?

2020-04-08 Thread Lars-Daniel Weber
Miroslav wrote: > A leap-smearing server suppresses the leap second bits in its > responses, but it could happen if the client knew from other time > sources or tzdata (enabled by leapsectz) that there was a leap second. So before using a new NTP service, it's needed to do some research. Or does

Aw: Re: Re: Re: [chrony-users] How to use Facebook's NTP-service correctly?

2020-04-08 Thread Lars-Daniel Weber
William G. Unruh wrote: > Yes. That was why Miroslav said it should be the user machine's responsibility > to smear, not the server's. The server should deliver UTC, and UTC has leap > seconds > (ie 23:59:58 goes to 00:00:00 or 23:59:59 goes to 25:59:60 and then to > 00:00:00.) > AFAIK there is

Aw: Re: [chrony-users] How to use Facebook's NTP-service correctly?

2020-04-08 Thread Lars-Daniel Weber
Hey Holger, Holger wrote: > an important point for you since you're presumably in Germany and Jawoll, under protection of CoronaSchVO NW. > I already went through the futile attempts to use these servers: > they're all outside Germany, with rather high latency and quite > terrible connectivity,

Aw: Re: Re: [chrony-users] How to use Facebook's NTP-service correctly?

2020-04-10 Thread Lars-Daniel Weber
Miroslav wrote: > On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 02:16:23PM +0200, Lars-Daniel Weber wrote: > > > On the manfile to chrony.conf there's also this as a recommendation: > > > leapsecmode slew > > > maxslewrate 1000 > > > smoothtime 400 0.001 leaponly > &

Aw: Re: [chrony-users] How to use Facebook's NTP-service correctly?

2020-04-08 Thread Lars-Daniel Weber
Holger wrote: > It's really just a cleaned up default (template) config.. On the manfile to chrony.conf there's also this as a recommendation: > leapsecmode slew > maxslewrate 1000 > smoothtime 400 0.001 leaponly https://chrony.tuxfamily.org/doc/3.4/chrony.conf.html I'll give it a try. --