Re: [ntp:questions] NTP no internet connection

2008-02-09 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2008-02-09, flyersix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a network that I would like to cordinate the time in without > exposing it to the internet for NTP servers. What level of time stability are you looking for? > Could I just setup NTP on one of my internal servers and set the > clients t

Re: [ntp:questions] UML/architecture picture of NTP?

2008-02-09 Thread Danny Mayer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I;ve downloaded the Development version 4.2.5p111 off NTP from > http://www.ntp.org/downloads.html > > I want to make modifications to the included sources of the ntpd (NTP > devel). First I need to know how it works, and how the different parts > communicate. I need som

Re: [ntp:questions] GCC-4.2.3 Compiler Error in NTP-4.2.2p4

2008-02-09 Thread David L. Mills
Thomas, The NTP distribution compiles fine with gcc 4.2.0 in Solaris 10, slthough it squeals like a stuck pig about OpenSSL prototypes. Dave Thomas Laus wrote: > On 2008-02-09, Harlan Stenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Tom, >> >> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Laus <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdate.c unsafe buffer write

2008-02-09 Thread Harlan Stenn
>>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Woolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> Harlan Stenn wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Woolley > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> David> I'm not convinced that SNTP will displace ntpdate for this purpose. >> Why not? David> Because

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdate.c unsafe buffer write

2008-02-09 Thread Harlan Stenn
>>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> writes: Richard> Harlan Stenn wrote: >> Guys, This is all discussed pretty well at: >> http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/DeprecatingNtpdate So far everything >> I have seen in this thread has already been covered o

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP no internet connection

2008-02-09 Thread Unruh
"Richard B. Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Unruh wrote: >> "Richard B. Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >>>flyersix wrote: >>> I have a network that I would like to cordinate the time in without exposing it to the internet for NTP servers. > >>>The problem with this

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP no internet connection

2008-02-09 Thread David J Taylor
David J Taylor wrote: [] > Your best bet is to get a local reference clock like a low-cost GPS > receiver (about $50-$200 US). I described a simple system here: > > http://narvik/blueyonder/ntp/FreeBSD-GPS-PPS.htm > > Cheers, > David Oops, that's: http://www.david-taylor.myby.co.uk/ntp/FreeBS

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP no internet connection

2008-02-09 Thread Unruh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Murray) writes: >>What does "all over the map" mean. they will be withing a few tens of >>microseconds of that server. >I'd expect a few to tens of ms rather than microseconds. On a local net I would expect a few tens of usec not msec. The round trip time is liable to be

Re: [ntp:questions] GCC-4.2.3 Compiler Error in NTP-4.2.2p4

2008-02-09 Thread Thomas Laus
On 2008-02-09, Harlan Stenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom, > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Laus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > First, somebody gets to decide if this is really a bug in the NTP code or if > it is a bug in GCC. > > If it's a bug in NTP (or perhaps even if it's not),

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP no internet connection

2008-02-09 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
Unruh wrote: > "Richard B. Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>flyersix wrote: >> >>>I have a network that I would like to cordinate the time in without >>>exposing it to the internet for NTP servers. >>> >>The problem with this is that your clock is not being disciplined. This >>means

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP no internet connection

2008-02-09 Thread Unruh
"Richard B. Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >flyersix wrote: >> I have a network that I would like to cordinate the time in without >> exposing it to the internet for NTP servers. >> >> Could I just setup NTP on one of my internal servers and set the >> clients to go to it for time syncs? I

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP no internet connection

2008-02-09 Thread Hal Murray
>What does "all over the map" mean. they will be withing a few tens of >microseconds of that server. I'd expect a few to tens of ms rather than microseconds. If you manually set the time on the server, I'd expect it to take a while for the clients to catch up. This question comes up often enou

Re: [ntp:questions] GCC-4.2.3 Compiler Error in NTP-4.2.2p4

2008-02-09 Thread Hal Murray
>First, somebody gets to decide if this is really a bug in the NTP code or if >it is a bug in GCC. It could also be a glitch in the included header files. -- These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. ___ questions mailing li

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdate.c unsafe buffer write

2008-02-09 Thread David Woolley
Harlan Stenn wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Woolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > David> I'm not convinced that SNTP will displace ntpdate for this purpose. > > Why not? Because ntpdate is fixed in the popular culture and, for the ordinary user, SNTP doesn't offer any obvi

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdate.c unsafe buffer write

2008-02-09 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
Harlan Stenn wrote: > Guys, > > This is all discussed pretty well at: > > http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/DeprecatingNtpdate > > So far everything I have seen in this thread has already been covered on > that page. I just followed the above link. I see ONE feature missing! ntpdate -Du

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP no internet connection

2008-02-09 Thread David Woolley
flyersix wrote: > internet time but my thought is if I only need to change the time on > the one server and then let the clients all go to it to update their > time. ntpd isn't designed to cope with sudden step changes in time, as time doesn't behave like that. It will cope, eventually, but can

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdate.c unsafe buffer write

2008-02-09 Thread Harlan Stenn
>>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David L. Mills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> Harlan, You make some good points. However, if folks want SNTP from David> here I think they would prefer it in its own distribution rather than David> bundle it with the huge NTP distribution. That's not the

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP no internet connection

2008-02-09 Thread David J Taylor
flyersix wrote: > I have a network that I would like to cordinate the time in without > exposing it to the internet for NTP servers. > > Could I just setup NTP on one of my internal servers and set the > clients to go to it for time syncs? I know the time won't match the > internet time but my tho

Re: [ntp:questions] GCC-4.2.3 Compiler Error in NTP-4.2.2p4

2008-02-09 Thread Harlan Stenn
Tom, >>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Laus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thomas> I tried to upgrade my ntp version running on a FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE Thomas> system this morning and received the following error: Thomas> The compiler is GCC-4.2.3_20080130 and the ntp version that I was Thoma

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdate.c unsafe buffer write

2008-02-09 Thread Harlan Stenn
Guys, This is all discussed pretty well at: http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/DeprecatingNtpdate So far everything I have seen in this thread has already been covered on that page. -- Harlan Stenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ntpforum.isc.org - be a member! __

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP no internet connection

2008-02-09 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
flyersix wrote: > I have a network that I would like to cordinate the time in without > exposing it to the internet for NTP servers. > > Could I just setup NTP on one of my internal servers and set the > clients to go to it for time syncs? I know the time won't match the > internet time but my th

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdate.c unsafe buffer write

2008-02-09 Thread Harlan Stenn
>>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Woolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> I don't think you are ever going to get rid of ntpdate from the David> distribution (as supplied by packagers and vendors) until ntpd offers David> a mode which sets the time within about one second of being start

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP no internet connection

2008-02-09 Thread Unruh
flyersix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I have a network that I would like to cordinate the time in without >exposing it to the internet for NTP servers. >Could I just setup NTP on one of my internal servers and set the >clients to go to it for time syncs? I know the time won't match the >internet

[ntp:questions] NTP no internet connection

2008-02-09 Thread flyersix
I have a network that I would like to cordinate the time in without exposing it to the internet for NTP servers. Could I just setup NTP on one of my internal servers and set the clients to go to it for time syncs? I know the time won't match the internet time but my thought is if I only need to c

[ntp:questions] GCC-4.2.3 Compiler Error in NTP-4.2.2p4

2008-02-09 Thread Thomas Laus
I tried to upgrade my ntp version running on a FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE system this morning and received the following error: if cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../include -I../include -I../libopts -I/usr/local/include -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wall -Wcast-qual -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpoin

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpd not responding on localhost

2008-02-09 Thread Maarten Wiltink
"Richard B. Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Nick Bright wrote: >> ntpq> pe >> remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset >> = >> 217.160.254.116 0.0.0.0 16 u- 128

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdate.c unsafe buffer write

2008-02-09 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2008-02-09, Tom Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > He means be done with it, including hard-setting the clock, within a > second. The accuracy expected, based on "ntpdate -b" as the benchmark > you are trying to replace, is within a small number of milliseconds of > the specified servers. > > S

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdate.c unsafe buffer write

2008-02-09 Thread Tom Smith
Richard B. Gilbert wrote: > David Woolley wrote: >> David L. Mills wrote: >> >>> Harlan, >>> >>> You make some good points. However, if folks want SNTP from here I >>> think they would prefer it in its own distribution rather than bundle >>> it with the huge NTP distribution. You can make a stron

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdate.c unsafe buffer write

2008-02-09 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
David Woolley wrote: > David L. Mills wrote: > >> Harlan, >> >> You make some good points. However, if folks want SNTP from here I >> think they would prefer it in its own distribution rather than bundle >> it with the huge NTP distribution. You can make a strong argument to >> host here > >

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpd not responding on localhost

2008-02-09 Thread David Woolley
Danny Mayer wrote: > Nick Bright wrote: >> If the NTPD isn't synchronized with external servers, will it simply >> ignore clients? >> > > Yes, unless you tell it to act as if it was by using the "local" refclock. > Actually, it won't ignore the clients, but the clients will ignore it. It sends

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdate.c unsafe buffer write

2008-02-09 Thread David Woolley
David L. Mills wrote: > Harlan, > > You make some good points. However, if folks want SNTP from here I think > they would prefer it in its own distribution rather than bundle it with > the huge NTP distribution. You can make a strong argument to host here I don't think you are ever going to ge