[ntp:questions] ntpdc does not lookup local address

2013-08-29 Thread Rob
On a colocation server I have ntpdc 4.2.6p5@1.2349-o (debian wheezy). When issueing the command ntpdc -c monlist, the addresses in the remote address column are looked up in DNS, and when they (or the lookup result) are too long they are truncated to the width of the column. However, in the

Re: [ntp:questions] PPS versus serial offset

2013-08-29 Thread David Taylor
On 28/08/2013 13:19, Steve Kostecke wrote: On 2013-08-28, David Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: detha de...@foad.co.za wrote: http://detha.co.za/ntp/ntpmon.20130828.jpg I would be more worried about the 11 ms step in the PPS at about -155 hours... The PPS signal is plotted in

Re: [ntp:questions] Start of new GPS 1024 week epoch

2013-08-29 Thread David Taylor
On 28/08/2013 13:34, Rob wrote: [] No, I mean when compiling ntpd for Windows. I think that requires Cygwin. Not so, it compiles purely with the free MS Visual Studio Express (C++ branch). It does need the OpenSSL source installed as well, but that also works with MS VS. No Cygwin needed

Re: [ntp:questions] Start of new GPS 1024 week epoch

2013-08-29 Thread Rob
David Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid wrote: On 28/08/2013 13:34, Rob wrote: [] No, I mean when compiling ntpd for Windows. I think that requires Cygwin. Not so, it compiles purely with the free MS Visual Studio Express (C++ branch). It does need the OpenSSL source installed

Re: [ntp:questions] Start of new GPS 1024 week epoch

2013-08-29 Thread David Taylor
On 29/08/2013 08:21, Rob wrote: [] Sorry... mistake. I mean when compiling *gpsd* for Windows. Looking at the source, gpsd does not have special code for Windows SHM. It could work, when it is compiled with Cygwin. Ah, OK, but I think gpsd for Windows would get a much better reception were

Re: [ntp:questions] Start of new GPS 1024 week epoch

2013-08-29 Thread John Hasler
David Taylor writes: Ah, OK, but I think gpsd for Windows would get a much better reception were it not to require Cygwin to run i.e, just like ntp, use only the standard Windows calls. From http://www.catb.org/gpsd/ : No, we don't support Windows — get a better operating system. esr is not

Re: [ntp:questions] Start of new GPS 1024 week epoch

2013-08-29 Thread unruh
On 2013-08-29, John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com wrote: David Taylor writes: Ah, OK, but I think gpsd for Windows would get a much better reception were it not to require Cygwin to run i.e, just like ntp, use only the standard Windows calls. From http://www.catb.org/gpsd/ : No, we don't

[ntp:questions] NTPD silently not tracking

2013-08-29 Thread Magnus Danielson
Hi, We had another incident where a node configured with multiple NTP sources had an NTPD which when asked with ntpdc have peers, looks like things are all OK, but with offsets less than a second, while the node in fact was 6 days off the mark. Only on a number of ntpdc querries did some of the

Re: [ntp:questions] NTPD silently not tracking

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Magnus Danielson wrote: We had another incident where a node configured with multiple NTP sources had an NTPD which when asked with ntpdc have peers, looks like things are all OK, but with offsets less than a second, while the node in fact was 6 days off the mark. Only on a number of ntpdc