Re: Apparent protocol-machine bug, new top priority

2017-09-24 Thread Achim Gratz via devel
Fred Wright via devel writes: > I presume "packages" was meant to be "packets". Yes, but since I was packaging a few hundred Perl modules for Cygwin at the time, my mind wandered off and that one slipped through. >> I'll try to reproduce on my RPis. > > Is there some kind of stress-test program t

Re: Apparent protocol-machine bug, new top priority

2017-09-24 Thread Fred Wright via devel
On Sun, 24 Sep 2017, Eric S. Raymond via devel wrote: > Achim Gratz via devel : > > Eric S. Raymond via devel writes: > > > Now that iburst has been fixed - and Achim reports seeing this problem > > > with iburst off - this pretty much has to be an issue deeper in the > > > protocol machine. (I g

Re: Apparent protocol-machine bug, new top priority

2017-09-24 Thread Eric S. Raymond via devel
Achim Gratz via devel : > Eric S. Raymond via devel writes: > > Now that iburst has been fixed - and Achim reports seeing this problem > > with iburst off - this pretty much has to be an issue deeper in the > > protocol machine. (I guess we should count our blessings and > > congratulate Daniel th

Post-1.0 refactoring and unit documentation; a request

2017-09-24 Thread Ian Bruene via devel
A few months ago when I added unit display to the python tools I created the devel/units file to document what the assorted Important Variables in NTPsec represent, and more importantly how that representation changes as the data moves through the programs. Because of my lack of knowledge of

Re: Apparent protocol-machine bug, new top priority

2017-09-24 Thread Achim Gratz via devel
Eric S. Raymond via devel writes: > Now that iburst has been fixed - and Achim reports seeing this problem > with iburst off - this pretty much has to be an issue deeper in the > protocol machine. (I guess we should count our blessings and > congratulate Daniel that there haven't more of these sin