I am writing some parsing code for reading Time Server packets. The first 32 bits of the returned packet are:
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |LI | VN |Mode | Stratum | Poll | Precision | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ When the two LI bits come back as 11 (clocks not synchronized) I have been treating that as a fatal error for that server. I ignore that packet and do not attempt to retry my query for that server. However I have found that LI=11 is not all that uncommon for servers from the pool. Is my response to LI=11 the correct one? Should I discard the response and should I write off that server for retries? So far, the only reason I might retry a server is if my recvfrom() socket call times out. -Robert Scott Hopkins, MN _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
