David J Taylor wrote: > Heiko Gerstung wrote: >> Hi there! >> >> I uploaded a new version of the Windows Installer to our webserver, >> including the brand new 4.2.4p3-RC1 version of NTP. This is a release >> candidate >> version, I ask everybody to carefully test this release and let me >> know if you experience any glitches or errors. Please do not use it >> in life systems or production environments (no, not even in your >> local nuclear power plant controlling system!). >> This version includes the fix for bug #527 which prevented us from >> releasing a new stable version of ntpd for Windows for several >> months. The only special modification I added was a small fix that >> lets NT4 SP6 clients run this version as well (although Autokey might >> not work on NT4 machines). >> The new release will be called "foehr", simply because Foehr (in >> German: Föhr) is a nice island in the Northern Sea >> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%B6hr) and exactly the place where I >> will spend two weeks of vacation >> (starting on Monday) ... hopefully chilling on the beach with my >> laptop and a decent wifi connection at hand :-) >> >> Please download the new installer version from here: >> http://www.meinberg.de/download/ntp/windows/experimental/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> And please do not link to this URL, I will remove this file as soon >> as I returned from vacation and created a new, official stable release. >> That one will be downloadable from our regular NTP download page at >> >> http://www.meinberg.de/english/sw/ntp.htm >> >> As usual, you can contact me or my colleagues at Meinberg if you face >> any difficulties with the installer or NTP on Windows machines. >> Please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! >> >> Best Regards, >> Heiko > > Heiko, > > Many thanks for making this version available. > > This release seems to be OK on Windows 2000 Prof, Windows XP Home and > Prof, but still has problems with Windows NT 4 SP 6 Server. On NT 4, the > initial connection is made only to a server on the LAN, and not to the > servers on the Internet. NTP then says synced to that local server. A > few minutes later, that server shows with a reach of 370. Then 360. > However, about 12 - 14 minutes after starting, a "No servers reachable" > message is logged in the Event log, and an ntpq -p shows that ntpd is no > longer synced. Reach is then 0. >
Please file a bug report specifying NT 4.0 though I have almost no way of figuring out what the problem is since NT 4.0 is very obsolete at this point in time and I no longer have an NT 4.0 system. Danny > Cheers, > David _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
