Re: [ntp:questions] Meinberg - GPS170PCI - ntpdate for step sync?

2007-07-13 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thierry MARTIN [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thierry The problem is I have to support the case where I have no internet Thierry connection. So GPS is the only time source and it takes more than Thierry one minute for 'ntpq -gq -c /etc/ntp.boot' to complete. That is

Re: [ntp:questions] Is the message Interrupted system call mean a problem in NTP setup

2007-07-17 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rejean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rejean I started ntp in my linux box like this: ntpd -D99 Wow. Rejean Output from ntpd is shown below. In the standard output i'm getting Rejean the error addto_syslog: select(): nfound=-1, error: Interrupted Rejean system call.

Re: [ntp:questions] Wrong time after changing hardware

2007-07-21 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Woolley) writes: David In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not at all - ntpd can handle being off by at most 500ppm. If the old machine needed a drift value of, say, -300 and the new machine needed

Re: [ntp:questions] Wrong time after changing hardware

2007-07-24 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard B. Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard Steve Kostecke wrote: On 2007-07-24, Richard B. Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the drift value has not changed significantly, it would be sufficient to simply touch the file to reset the date/time. Is

Re: [ntp:questions] Wrong time after changing hardware

2007-07-24 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Per Hedeland) writes: Per In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] David L. Mills Per [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It has been the case for the life of the distribution that, if you don't specify a frequency file, it will never be written. Per Which reminds

Re: [ntp:questions] Installing more stable oscillator?

2007-07-30 Thread Harlan Stenn
Feel free to improve the content at: http://support.ntp.org/Support/ConfiguringGarminRefclocks and if you have a Garmin refclock, please consider adding yourself to: http://support.ntp.org/Support/GarminRefclockUsers H ___ questions mailing list

Re: [ntp:questions] Offsets in NTP vs. SNTP

2007-07-30 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard B. Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard Where can one obtain a copy of the draft NTP RFC? http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ntp-ntpv4-proto-07.txt Also see http://support.ntp.org/IETF . H

Re: [ntp:questions] Reference clock driver for Brandywine PCI-SyncClock32

2007-08-02 Thread Harlan Stenn
I believe that refclock is supported by the gpsvme driver. H ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Unresolved Symbol

2007-08-06 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Aggie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Aggie Dear All, I have been working on porting NTP to VxWorks. When I load Aggie the ntpd to the target, it gives me a list of unresolved Aggie symbols. Here's the list: SetLastError, getpagesize, sys_nerr, Aggie adjtime, pipe, wait,

Re: [ntp:questions] Device/device driver to use with PCI-SyncClock32Univ

2007-08-06 Thread Harlan Stenn
I see no documentation for driver21. It would be Swell if somebody who knew what was going on wrote something for it. I do see that there are maintainers for the refclock. It looks like: http://support.ntp.org/Support/ConfiguringTrueTimeRefclocks

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP architecture recommendation

2007-08-17 Thread Harlan Stenn
Depending on your budget you might want some sort of atomic clock in there for the times when you are not getting a signal. You might also want to look at a modem driver as a 2nd source. To my knowledge Meinberg has never been bitten by a software bug where their clocks would report incorrect

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP architecture recommendation

2007-08-18 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard B. Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard I suspect that the precision desired was that of position rather Richard than time. Have you read any of Judah Levine's posts on this subject? H ___ questions

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP architecture recommendation

2007-08-18 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard B. Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard Harlan Stenn wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard B. Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard I suspect that the precision desired was that of position rather Richard than time. Have you read any

Re: [ntp:questions] Unresolved Symbol

2007-08-21 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Per Hedeland) writes: if ((pOpts-pzCurOpt != NULL) (*pOpts-pzCurOpt != NUL)) Per However I do think the use of NUL is unwise, having a plain '\0' there Per instead would avoid an initial potentially confusing Per misreading/misunderstanding

Re: [ntp:questions] autokey URL question

2007-08-30 Thread Harlan Stenn
Please see http://support.ntp.org/Support/ConfiguringAutokey and be aware that this may change soon. H ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP settings for machine with irregular, short connections to the Net

2007-09-10 Thread Harlan Stenn
Why don't you test how well the laptop works as a time transportation mechanism first? And they can make their own decision about how well the alternatives work. If the laptop does it for them, great. If not, they might be able to use a modem driver or a low-cost (~US$80) GPS receiver. H

Re: [ntp:questions] Is high jitter contagious?

2007-09-11 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: dromedaryl Harlan, I previously tried peering all the machines and ended up dromedaryl with all the nodes losing sync with each other. No doubt due to dromedaryl a faulty configuration. dromedaryl Would every node have the same ntp.conf,

[ntp:questions] dumping ntpd's state and multiple IPs/hostname

2007-09-11 Thread Harlan Stenn
I'm about to start taking a look at the 'restrict' problem, described in http://bugs.ntp.org/828 and http://bugs.ntp.org/891. I'm thinking that it would be Useful to have a function that would cause ntpd to dump state, and the format of the dump should be a parsable ntp.conf file. In thinking

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP settings for machine with irregular, short connections to the Net

2007-09-12 Thread Harlan Stenn
Harlan Stenn wrote: Why don't you test how well the laptop works as a time transportation mechanism first? And they can make their own decision about how well the alternatives work. If the laptop does it for them, great. If not, they might be able to use a modem driver or a low

Re: [ntp:questions] More Granularity in the US in the NTP Pool

2007-09-13 Thread Harlan Stenn
Henk, Please add thoughts like this to someplace like: http://support.ntp.org/Dev/NewNtpConfFormat#Allow_configuration_of_up_to_N_I Past experience shows that posting thoughts like these to either the newsgroup or a mailing list leads to good ideas that do not get implemented because of the

Re: [ntp:questions] More Granularity in the US in the NTP Pool

2007-09-13 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard B. Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard The quality of time and therefore the best servers depends Richard strongly on the length of the network path between server and Richard client. Why are you discounting traffic volume? I'm not saying you are

Re: [ntp:questions] NTPd instability and openntpd

2007-09-14 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mij [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mij I submitted to pool.ntp.org with a stratum 2 NTPd server. The useful mij system scoring however shows me significant discontinuity in the mij service: mij http://www.pool.ntp.org/scores/81.208.58.150 I recommend plotting your own

Re: [ntp:questions] Makefile - Add Option

2007-10-02 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Aggie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Aggie Now I believe I need to add -mstrict-align -msoft-float -mlongcall to Aggie the makefile in order to use double. Aggie Any suggestion/advice will help. Thanks. I'd recommend CFLAGS (they are needed for *compiles*, right?) in

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpd sometimes goes wacko, all peers in INIT, packets mostly ignored, but restart fixes it

2007-10-05 Thread Harlan Stenn
I recommend you visit: http://support.ntp.org/Support/ConfiguringNTP http://support.ntp.org/Support/AccessRestrictions if you have not already. Do you see the 'rv' output where the timestamps are 0 and the 'stratum=16'? This means the remote servers are telling you that they do not know the

Re: [ntp:questions] Onboard Local Oscillator Change Improvements

2007-10-08 Thread Harlan Stenn
Elio, Have you seen http://www.febo.com/pages/soekris/ ? H ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Can a clock drift be too big for ntpd?

2007-10-19 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Patrick Nolan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Patrick I'm having trouble with one linux client out of a group. It seems Patrick as if ntpd can't keep its clock syncronized. It's drifting about Patrick 6-10 minutes per day, well over the 500 ppm limit. As others have

Re: [ntp:questions] How to choose time servers

2007-10-26 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Patrick Nolan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Patrick I'm located at a university. We have a master Stratum 1 server Patrick with a GPS clock. We also have at least four Stratum 2 servers Patrick which are synchronized with the master. These are all very close, Patrick

Re: [ntp:questions] in pool, my server runs for days, crashes with no log

2007-11-05 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], fishtop_records [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: fishtop OK, I've updated to 4.2.4p4 For some reason, 'make install' didn't fishtop put the executables into /usr/ sbin as I expected as I did the fishtop configure --prefix=/usr/sbin You wanted: configure

Re: [ntp:questions] help: ntp4 on vxworks

2007-11-07 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prathapnirmal) writes: prathapnirmal * I see configure.in only in arlib directory. So do I have to prathapnirmal update anything in this file? No. There will be a top-level configure.ac that might need to be updated though. prathapnirmal * Do I

Re: [ntp:questions] Reference clock all messed up?

2007-11-07 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Bolte) writes: Adam --- /etc/ntp.conf on 192.168.2.1 --- # /etc/ntp.conf Adam server 192.168.1.1 iburst is your friend. See http://support.ntp.org/Support . Adam Using a client on one of the subnets I control, I run: $ sudo ntpdate Adam

Re: [ntp:questions] Reference clock all messed up?

2007-11-12 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Bolte) writes: Adam Hi Danny, Add iburst to this line for faster synchronization Adam Thanks, but being an PDC I really didn't want the clock to change too Adam quickly. This may seem strange not already having NTP, but the network Adam

Re: [ntp:questions] New reference clock driver

2007-11-12 Thread Harlan Stenn
Venu, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (venu gopal) writes: venu Hi all, The GPS receiver is from an Indian Company ACCORD. It has a venu custom NMEA data with GPS time and is validity. It also sends standard venu NMEA data including GPGGA, GPGLL with UTC time at 9600 baudrate.

Re: [ntp:questions] move_fd() causing bad behavior on AIX5.3

2007-11-20 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: brandon ntp-4.2.4p4 / AIX 5.3 This was annoying to chase down because I brandon guess it's also screwing up the fds used to log errors. The brandon symptom is that ntpd exits silently due to a bind() error, but only brandon when

Re: [ntp:questions] move_fd() causing bad behavior on AIX5.3

2007-11-20 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: brandon Oops, 614 is what I meant. I did see that it is closed, but the brandon comments on it left me with some doubt about whether it had been brandon verified on AIX5 specifically. VERIFIED means the person who opened the issue has

Re: [ntp:questions] Inexpensive OEM GPS units?

2007-11-21 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rob van der Putten [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rob Mozilla and Konqueror. Complains about not being able to calculate the Rob shipping charges. I would hope you sent email to their webmaster... H ___ questions mailing

Re: [ntp:questions] drift file set to -500

2007-11-28 Thread Harlan Stenn
Kev, Do I recall you said you were using HZ=60? If so, I recommend trying HZ=100 instead. If you look at your logfile output, are you seeing time steps of approximately the same amount at approximately the same time intervals? If not, you probably have interrupt or BIOS or some other external

Re: [ntp:questions] Wireless Routers and NTP

2007-11-28 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rob Kimberley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rob Does anyone have recommendations for an ADSL Wireless Router that I can Rob manually set the NTP Server address on? When I care about things like that and do not like the stock firmware, I get a unit that will accept the

Re: [ntp:questions] move_fd() causing bad behavior on AIX5.3

2007-11-28 Thread Harlan Stenn
There is a good reason for the move_fd code. Frank would probably know better, and he's on vacation for another 2-3 weeks' time. I think it has to do with making sure there is room to open different sorts of files, and may only be important if one has refclocks. But it could be Bad to disable

Re: [ntp:questions] drift file set to -500

2007-11-30 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Aggie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Aggie Harlan, I changed hz to 100 and ran it overnight yesterday. It seemed Aggie like it had affect on the drift file problem, because normally the Aggie drift file would have already been created after 10 hrs, and Aggie complained

Re: [ntp:questions] drift file set to -500

2007-11-30 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Aggie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Aggie I think I found out where the problem is. VxWorks doesn't have Aggie adjtime( ), and the one we wrote wasn't doing anything. That's what Aggie makes the drift to increase to +500 (I think). Does that make Aggie sense?? It

Re: [ntp:questions] move_fd() causing bad behavior on AIX5.3

2007-12-01 Thread Harlan Stenn
Danny wrote: Harlan Stenn wrote: There is a good reason for the move_fd code. Frank would probably know better, and he's on vacation for another 2-3 weeks' time. Actually I was the one that wrote it and yes there are good reasons for doing it. Cool - thanks for letting me know those

Re: [ntp:questions] Issues with ACCORD Reference Clock Driver

2007-12-03 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David L. Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David ... The urge for utmost KISS and fewest driver files in the David public distribution is very strong. The problem is that the David distribution build process is so intricate that few refclock David builders, including

Re: [ntp:questions] Reg comments on ACCORD Reference Clock Driver

2007-12-03 Thread Harlan Stenn
Venu, Are you volunteering to be the maintainer for this code? If not, somebody will have to step up to do it. H -- http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member! ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org

Re: [ntp:questions] Distribution security

2007-12-03 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David L. Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David In fact, all snapshots, releases, bugzilla, repositories, NTP home David page and NTP project site physically reside at U Delaware. Only the David documents maintained by the NTP Support Project are physically David

Re: [ntp:questions] Trace ntp sanity checks?

2007-12-06 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: linux ntpq -p remoterefid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter == *LOCAL(0) LOCAL(0)10 l 63 64 377 0.000 0.000 0.004 master1

Re: [ntp:questions] SNMP support

2007-12-07 Thread Harlan Stenn
on a new sntp client - no idea when it will be ready. -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member! ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] SNMP support

2007-12-08 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David J Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Not SNTP - the management protocol SNMP. Ah, I read too quicklky. That is being discussed in the IETF NTP Workgroup. -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member

Re: [ntp:questions] Dual-core systems - AMD - Windows Vista

2007-12-09 Thread Harlan Stenn
... -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member! ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Dimensioning NTP Server

2007-12-13 Thread Harlan Stenn
be pretty inexpensive. And if you could write up your experience (or email it to me) I would appreciate it. -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member! ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https

Re: [ntp:questions] Source address in response always the same as target address in request?

2007-12-14 Thread Harlan Stenn
300 virtual IPs on it. This is becoming more and more common - people assign 1 IP per 'service' so the service can be easily put on an arbitrary machine, or they use several IPs for the service on different subnets/vlans for network architecture and security reasons. -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL

Re: [ntp:questions] SNMP support

2007-12-14 Thread Harlan Stenn
the specifications for this agreed upon and then implemented (as soon as we get either a volunteer to write it or the NTP Forum gets sufficient membership revenue to pay for writing this). -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member

Re: [ntp:questions] The smallest possible ntpd, unoptimized

2008-01-04 Thread Harlan Stenn
Pierre, You might have better luck using the normal -O flags and figuring out which math routines are needed, and then seeing if you can find some .s files that will implement them. Also, configure CCFLAGS='-O whatever' may be useful. -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org

Re: [ntp:questions] Distribution security

2008-01-06 Thread Harlan Stenn
and it might be pretty easy for somebody to put the URLs in the various .def files to get the interim step Hal describes out there sooner. I'd be real happy if somebody did this, as I'm gonna be crushed for time for the next few months' time. -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org

Re: [ntp:questions] Distribution security

2008-01-06 Thread Harlan Stenn
or ntp.conf documentation (for example) would be the same on the html, man, info, etc. pages. -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member! ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [ntp:questions] Distribution security

2008-01-06 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Harlan Please see: Harlan http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/GNUAutoGenConversion Harlan http://members.ntpforum.isc.org/bin/view/Main/ForumProject3 Harlan http://members.ntpforum.isc.org/bin/view/Main/ForumProject4

[ntp:questions] ntpd and network sockets

2008-01-07 Thread Harlan Stenn
for that IP) would be real helpful. My goal is to have something that will work in general, with sufficient capabilities to handle the difficult cases without undue baggage. I want to get a Good solution - neither under- nor over-designed. -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org

Re: [ntp:questions] Using mode byte of NMEA ref.clock driver ?

2008-01-08 Thread Harlan Stenn
over maintenance :) -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member! ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpd and network sockets

2008-01-08 Thread Harlan Stenn
Rick, OK with you if I incorporate the stuff in your response on http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/NtpdAndNetworkSockets ? I'll either clarify things per your comments or add your comments in. -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member

Re: [ntp:questions] Using mode byte of NMEA ref.clock driver ?

2008-01-09 Thread Harlan Stenn
Thanks, Venu! -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member! ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] thttpd and auto-redirect

2008-01-20 Thread Harlan Stenn
for *.pool.ntp.org Any thoughts? Danny This is the NTP newsgroup. Why are you asking questions about HTTP Danny here? How about because it is in relation to an issues that pertains to NTP and other folks may want to know as well. -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP vs chrony comparison (Was: oscillations in ntp clock synchronization)

2008-01-22 Thread Harlan Stenn
Hey Danny! In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Unruh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unruh Unfortunately I cannot run both ntp and chrony on the same system at Unruh the same time. Bill, Exactly why can you not run ntpd and chrony on the same system at the same time? I want the ability to run multiple

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP vs chrony comparison (Was: oscillations in ntp clock synchronization)

2008-01-22 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Danny Mayer) writes: Danny Harlan Stenn wrote: Unruh Unfortunately I cannot run both ntp and chrony on the same system at Unruh the same time. Bill, Exactly why can you not run ntpd and chrony on the same system at the same time? Danny

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP vs chrony comparison (Was: oscillations in ntp clock synchronization)

2008-01-23 Thread Harlan Stenn
? -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member! ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Building ntp on Solaris 8

2008-01-24 Thread Harlan Stenn
Sashi, I think you are missing some SSL libraries. -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member! ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] very slow convergence of ntp to correct time.

2008-01-28 Thread Harlan Stenn
. That would at least keep the switch and ARP caches fresh and depending on the design, the policy and NAT caches as well. - Eric -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member! ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP Statistics

2008-01-28 Thread Harlan Stenn
and then making those headaches go away. I'm eager to work with folks to get their companies signed up as institutional members in the NTP Forum so we can get rid of the pain and have significantly better lives where NTP is concerned. -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org

Re: [ntp:questions] Configuration files missing after make all

2008-02-05 Thread Harlan Stenn
/AutoconfIssues . There are Legacy installation issues here and every time they have been changed in the past the backlash has been Enormous. That this issue (and so many others) is still present is another example of why folks should join and support the NTP Forum. -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [ntp:questions] xntpd fails aix 5.3

2008-02-05 Thread Harlan Stenn
to them that is of the quality and caliber we all expect. -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member! ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Configuration files missing after make all

2008-02-05 Thread Harlan Stenn
wider, in fact; Maarten it should not be run inside virtual machines. True, and there are still (very) valid reasons for wanting control over where to put the config files. And there are still other problems with time on virtual machines that need to be solved. -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdate.c unsafe buffer write

2008-02-07 Thread Harlan Stenn
certainly is potentially longer than 10 Unruh bytes, that buf is ripe for buffer overflow. It should be something Unruh like char buf[(sizeof(unsigned long)*12/5+2)]; And/or the sprintf Unruh should be an snprintf. -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdate.c unsafe buffer write

2008-02-07 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Unruh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unruh Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bill, ntpdate is being deprecated. Unruh Maybe, but it should still not have bugs if it is actually still part Unruh of the distro. I mostly agree with you. And one reason

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdate.c unsafe buffer write

2008-02-08 Thread Harlan Stenn
code, or completely separate codebases. There is some middle ground regarding support libraries. I see difficult tradeoffs with either approach. -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member! ___ questions mailing list questions

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdate.c unsafe buffer write

2008-02-09 Thread Harlan Stenn
sequence, just before starting time-critical services). Near as I can recall, any other cases have looser constraints so they're not particularly interesting for this conversation. -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdate.c unsafe buffer write

2008-02-09 Thread Harlan Stenn
already have internal and external links on the ntp.org site. And if somebody wants additional or different information there, contact information is also listed in what should be obvious places. -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member

Re: [ntp:questions] GCC-4.2.3 Compiler Error in NTP-4.2.2p4

2008-02-09 Thread Harlan Stenn
to that report it will be applied lots sooner. -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member! ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdate.c unsafe buffer write

2008-02-09 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Woolley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Harlan Stenn wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Woolley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David I'm not convinced that SNTP will displace ntpdate for this purpose. Why not? David Because ntpdate is fixed

Re: [ntp:questions] GCC-4.2.3 Compiler Error in NTP-4.2.2p4

2008-02-10 Thread Harlan Stenn
HAVE_TIMER_CREATE */ in the top level config.h). It also Douglas compiled successfully using gcc 4.3.0 20071221. So, I really would Douglas suspect stale configuration files on your system. The FreeBSD patches should have no effect on the TIMER code. -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdate.c unsafe buffer write

2008-02-10 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Woolley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Harlan Stenn wrote: Why would ntpd be exiting during a warm start? David Because we are discussing using it with the -q option. If you just David use -g, it will take a lot longer to converge within a few David

Re: [ntp:questions] UML/architecture picture of NTP?

2008-02-10 Thread Harlan Stenn
. This is the first request I have see for them, and leaves me with two questions: 1) how many folks want UML diagrams of the (protocol) architecture of NTP? 2) how much are how many folks willing to pay for their creation and maintenance? -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdate.c unsafe buffer write

2008-02-10 Thread Harlan Stenn
that you do not get with: ntpd -g ; ntp-wait 2) there have been recent changes to the initial frequency/offset situation with ntp-dev. Have you tried the latest code to see how it behaves? -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdate.c unsafe buffer write

2008-02-11 Thread Harlan Stenn
with no overshoot and make our adjustment, the next time we run ntpdate we will make the same adjustment that we just did. So let's overshoot so next time we will be a bit closer. I didn't say the idea makes a lot of sense, but hey. -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdate.c unsafe buffer write

2008-02-11 Thread Harlan Stenn
is no longer best common practice, and it hasn't been for a decent hunk of time. -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member! ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdate.c unsafe buffer write

2008-02-11 Thread Harlan Stenn
. Agreed? If so, what benefit do we get by using the script to delay things while we are waiting for a slew to finish while in state 4? What difference does it make if the system in question is an client as opposed to a server? -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdate.c unsafe buffer write

2008-02-12 Thread Harlan Stenn
. And suddenly the poor server is flooded. 2000 packets hitting ntpd all at once should not be a problem for an ntp server in that environment. -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member! ___ questions mailing list questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Geographical diversity of Stratum 1 servers

2008-02-12 Thread Harlan Stenn
information you come up with to: http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Support/ChoosingReferenceClocks -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member! ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpd not responding on localhost

2008-02-12 Thread Harlan Stenn
Nick, Even better would be for folks to visit: http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Support/AccessRestrictions -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member! ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https

Re: [ntp:questions] Force ntpd to immediately trust server

2008-02-15 Thread Harlan Stenn
operating at? Without this last bit of information, we could tell somebody the wrong time when they ask for it a few seconds later. I would like to talk more with you about this. -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member

Re: [ntp:questions] Windows NTP setup problem.

2008-02-15 Thread Harlan Stenn
, there is no exchange of time information. -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member! ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP on local network

2008-02-17 Thread Harlan Stenn
. Danny Richard It's a losing battle Danny! :-) I suspect there is disagreement on who the losers are. -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member! ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org

Re: [ntp:questions] Authentication problem

2008-02-26 Thread Harlan Stenn
ntpdc keyid Dennis keyid is 134682920 Feel free to open a bug report on this. While there is little chance somebody will fix it, there is *no* chance it will be fixed if nobody remembers it. -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member

Re: [ntp:questions] Time reset

2008-03-03 Thread Harlan Stenn
Venu, What hardware and OS is this? Have you seen the troubleshooting pages (known hardware and OS problems) at http://support.ntp.org/Support ? -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member! ___ questions mailing list

Re: [ntp:questions] Time reset

2008-03-04 Thread Harlan Stenn
/Support/KnownOsIssues#Section_9.2.3.1. which talks about a lost interrupt problem for that kernel. -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member! ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman

Re: [ntp:questions] drift value very large and very unstable

2008-03-04 Thread Harlan Stenn
Andy, All I have at the moment is to make sure you have seen the known hardware and OS issues pages at support.ntp.org/Support/TroubleshootingNTP. It looks like there was some more information on APIC and ACPI, but those links area currently broken. -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [ntp:questions] pool configuration directive on Windows

2008-03-04 Thread Harlan Stenn
, please volunteer and/or join the NTP Forum and/or help get companies to join the NTP Forum as institutional members, because otherwise these features may never be implemented. -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member

Re: [ntp:questions] drift value very large and very unstable

2008-03-05 Thread Harlan Stenn
iburst is good. burst, very likely not. -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member! ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] drift value very large and very unstable

2008-03-06 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Oberman) writes: From: Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:33:17 + Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] iburst is good. burst, very likely not. Kevin In general, I agree, but the context is for a connected reference

Re: [ntp:questions] pool configuration directive on Windows

2008-03-06 Thread Harlan Stenn
. I'm happy to get other ideas on how to improve this as well. -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member! ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Default config on Ubuntu doesn't work as client

2008-03-09 Thread Harlan Stenn
for 192.168.2.15 . See http://support.ntp.org/Support/AccessRestrictions . -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member! ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] pool configuration directive on Windows

2008-03-10 Thread Harlan Stenn
in a lot of other detail. I'm open to suggestions on how to make improvements in this beast, and I would prefer solutions that do not involve a step backwards in any areas. -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member

Re: [ntp:questions] SNTP server + ntpd 4.2.4 client

2008-03-17 Thread Harlan Stenn
is playing by the rules. -- Harlan Stenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member! ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

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