Re: [ntp:questions] Clock skew changes drastically between reboots

2007-04-01 Thread Dmitry Ivanov
On 1 Apr 2007, at 21:44, Spoon wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I've noticed something I find very strange on the systems I have to > work > with. Every time I reboot the computer, the clock skew of the local > clock changes, sometimes by what seems to be a huge amount. > > For example, I boot the c

Re: [ntp:questions] Bad NTP servers jeopardizing the pool.ntp.org initiative

2007-04-01 Thread Per Hedeland
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Harlan Stenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Danny >Mayer) writes: > >P> As you might have seen elsewhere I do agree that this is only a good >P> idea under well defined circumstances, and I would now add that it is

Re: [ntp:questions] Bad NTP servers jeopardizing the pool.ntp.org initiative

2007-04-01 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Danny Mayer) writes: > Which point would that be? Having NTP servers with varying addresses is > a good idea? It appears to me that pools is on the verge of collapse from way too high a load. There are only ~1000 pools servers right now. (ref: http://www.pool.ntp.org/ right

Re: [ntp:questions] Bad NTP servers jeopardizing the pool.ntp.org initiative

2007-04-01 Thread Harlan Stenn
Danny, It's not worth the trouble to me to do the things you requested. H ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.isc.org https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Bad NTP servers jeopardizing the pool.ntp.org initiative

2007-04-01 Thread Danny Mayer
Harlan Stenn wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Danny Mayer) writes: > > P> As you might have seen elsewhere I do agree that this is only a good > P> idea under well defined circumstances, and I would now add that it is > P> difficult to ascertain up-front whether thes

Re: [ntp:questions] Clock skew changes drastically between reboots

2007-04-01 Thread Harlan Stenn
Consider plotting the value. If you are really looking at at 12 hour cycle, it could be related to room temp (or CPU temp) based on AM/PM stuff. H ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.isc.org https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questio

[ntp:questions] Clock skew changes drastically between reboots

2007-04-01 Thread Spoon
Hello everyone, I've noticed something I find very strange on the systems I have to work with. Every time I reboot the computer, the clock skew of the local clock changes, sometimes by what seems to be a huge amount. For example, I boot the computer, let ntpd run for 12 hours, and the value re

Re: [ntp:questions] Bad NTP servers jeopardizing the pool.ntp.org initiative

2007-04-01 Thread Harlan Stenn
>>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Danny Mayer) writes: P> As you might have seen elsewhere I do agree that this is only a good P> idea under well defined circumstances, and I would now add that it is P> difficult to ascertain up-front whether these conditions are met (i.e. P>

Re: [ntp:questions] Bad NTP servers jeopardizing the pool.ntp.org initiative

2007-04-01 Thread Danny Mayer
Jan Ceuleers wrote: > Danny Mayer wrote: >> Jan Ceuleers wrote: >>> (I suggested that pool members with non-static IP addresses could be >>> accommodated by the pool). >> Well you shouldn't have. It just won't work for any useful time period. > > Well excuse me for thinking out loud... Sorry if