On 07/06/2014 11:23 AM, Rob wrote: > Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceule...@computer.org> wrote: >> I recommend providing motivation for the undesired clients to stop using >> the server, by the server sending a regular response indicating that it >> is not synchronised or replying in some other way that has no >> timekeeping value to the offending client. > > Well, that is what KOD actually is.
Sorry, I was not clear. By a 'regular' response I mean one that has a non-zero stratum value. I had actually forgotten that a stratum value of zero indicates that the server is not synchronised (as it is a collision with LI=3, which also means that). So I guess I'm dropping my first suggestion. The second-one stands: pick a non-zero stratum value and report an immutable time stamp. Note that the stratum field occupies 8 bits in the packet format, but currently only values between 0 and 15 are defined (where we have seen that a value of 0 is not uniformly understood by real-life clients). So the choice of stratum value should be in the range 1-15. I have no particular preference for the immutable time stamp value to pick. Could be zero, could be some other "meaningful" value (such as 0xeee4baadeee4baad - twice Eek! Bad!). Jan _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
