Re: [ntp:questions] slow start

2007-05-29 Thread Rick Jones
as well as showing you all of the > intermediate requests. Which is probably why the masses like nslookup. 99 times out of 10, they just want to know the IP for a given name and aren't especially interested in much of anything else. rick jones -- firebug n, the idiot who tosses a lit ci

Re: [ntp:questions] GPS receivers were severely disrupted on 06 Dec 2006

2007-04-05 Thread Rick Jones
Marc Brett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Second, the December 6 event dramatically shows the effect of solar > radio bursts is global and instantaneous. Instantaneous? I thought it took at least 8 minutes for something happening at the Sun to become "visible" near Earth? r

Re: [ntp:questions] Doubt about Syncronization of GPS SPECTRACOM(2)

2007-03-05 Thread Rick Jones
t depends on whether or not ntpdate wants to see IP addresses it won't use - ie filter/ignore them itself rather than letting getaddrinfo do it. rick jones -- The glass is neither half-empty nor half-full. The glass has a leak. The real question is "Can it be patched?" these opinions

Re: [ntp:questions] Doubt about Syncronization of GPS SPECTRACOM(2)

2007-03-02 Thread Rick Jones
v6 answers when there is no IPv6 address configured on the system running ntpdate. Whether ntpdate should be enhanced to walk the list I guess would be an open question. rick jones -- The glass is neither half-empty nor half-full. The glass has a leak. The real question is "Can it be patched?

Re: [ntp:questions] Doubt about Syncronization of GPS SPECTRACOM(2)

2007-03-01 Thread Rick Jones
ere is an interface configured with a v6 address. Loopback (IIRC) does not count. (leaving open I suppose the question of what happens with that set and only a loopback address configured :) rick jones -- Wisdom Teeth are impacted, people are affected by the effects of events. these opin

Re: [ntp:questions] Problems with huffpuff

2007-02-27 Thread Rick Jones
, we can ass-u-me :) that most of the delay is actually somewhere other than the wire in the test above, and then that the dleay for 100BT would be roughly the same. (of course, as the request and response sizes increase, link bitrate will become a component of the delay greater than epsilon) rick

Re: [ntp:questions] Interesting results with PPS

2007-02-07 Thread Rick Jones
ing/briefs/nic_latency_vs_tput.txt has some jumbled results of what can change based on some tests I've run in the past. hth, rick jones -- oxymoron n, commuter in a gas-guzzling luxury SUV with an American flag these opinions are mine, all mine; HP might not want them anyway... :) feel free to po