Re: [ntp:questions] NTP server not reducing polling interval on upstream hosts

2014-10-17 Thread David Taylor
On 17/10/2014 04:25, Phil W Lee wrote: [] Can I upgrade by just swapping a newer binary in? I'm not really far enough up the FreeBSD learning curve to work out why I'm getting errors trying to build a newer one from source (I did at least try). Phil, When updating I follow the instructions

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP server not reducing polling interval on upstream hosts

2014-10-17 Thread Rob
Phil W Lee p...@lee-family.me.uk wrote: Rob nom...@example.com considered 16 Oct 2014 21:07:11 GMT the perfect time to write: Phil W Lee p...@lee-family.me.uk wrote: The problem I am having is that it is stuck on polling the upstream stratum 1 servers it uses as a sanity check every 64

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP server not reducing polling interval on upstream hosts

2014-10-17 Thread Michael Deutschmann
On 16 Oct 2014, Rob wrote: Phil W Lee p...@lee-family.me.uk wrote: The problem I am having is that it is stuck on polling the upstream stratum 1 servers it uses as a sanity check every 64 seconds. (it's main source is a Garmin GPS 18x with PPS, based on the excellent guides by David

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP server not reducing polling interval on upstream hosts

2014-10-17 Thread Rob
Michael Deutschmann mich...@talosis.ca wrote: On 16 Oct 2014, Rob wrote: Phil W Lee p...@lee-family.me.uk wrote: The problem I am having is that it is stuck on polling the upstream stratum 1 servers it uses as a sanity check every 64 seconds. (it's main source is a Garmin GPS 18x with PPS,

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP server not reducing polling interval on upstream hosts

2014-10-17 Thread Rob
David Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid wrote: On 17/10/2014 04:25, Phil W Lee wrote: [] Can I upgrade by just swapping a newer binary in? I'm not really far enough up the FreeBSD learning curve to work out why I'm getting errors trying to build a newer one from source (I did at

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP server not reducing polling interval on upstream hosts

2014-10-17 Thread David Taylor
On 17/10/2014 04:25, Phil W Lee wrote: [] Can I upgrade by just swapping a newer binary in? I'm not really far enough up the FreeBSD learning curve to work out why I'm getting errors trying to build a newer one from source (I did at least try). I've put the Intel binaries I am currently using

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP server not reducing polling interval on upstream hosts

2014-10-17 Thread Paul
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Phil W Lee p...@lee-family.me.uk wrote: I don't really want to set the minpoll too high, as it takes such a long time to synchronise after rebooting or restarting ntpd. So you're saying something like server 127.127.22.0 minpoll N server 2610:20:6f15:...

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP server not reducing polling interval on upstream hosts

2014-10-17 Thread David Lord
Phil W Lee wrote: Hi people. I've got a server running FreeBSD 8.1 with the included ntpd 4.2.4p5 Yes, I know it's not the latest version, but it's well firewalled and the security restrictions are in place to prevent it being used in DDOS attacks. The problem I am having is that it is stuck

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP server not reducing polling interval on upstream hosts

2014-10-17 Thread William Unruh
On 2014-10-17, Phil W Lee p...@lee-family.me.uk wrote: David Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid considered Fri, 17 Oct 2014 07:14:47 +0100 the perfect time to write: On 17/10/2014 04:25, Phil W Lee wrote: [] Can I upgrade by just swapping a newer binary in? I'm not really far enough

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP server not reducing polling interval on upstream hosts

2014-10-17 Thread William Unruh
On 2014-10-18, Phil W Lee p...@lee-family.me.uk wrote: William Unruh un...@invalid.ca considered Fri, 17 Oct 2014 18:40:55 + (UTC) the perfect time to write: On 2014-10-17, Phil W Lee p...@lee-family.me.uk wrote: David Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid considered Fri, 17 Oct