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

2008-02-13 Thread David Woolley
Hal Murray wrote: 20 ms sounds like a typical DSL link. That 1ms accuracy goes out the window if you are doing a big download. (At least on my DSL link.) People don't generally do big downloads during the boot of a machine! On a big network, the most likely reason for rebooting a

Re: [ntp:questions] Starting ISC NTP -4.2.4

2008-02-13 Thread Hal Murray
Iam trying to install ISC NTP-4.2.4 on RHEL 4. But Im not able to start the services. I firstly removed the default rpm and then compiled the latest version, configured the ntp.conf file, but Iam not able to start the service. I give the command /etc/init.d/ntpd start. # prompt comes back.

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

2008-02-13 Thread Maarten Wiltink
David L. Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] No, there is no random delay at startup. Each association starts one second after the previous one. The random backoff occurs only after a step. Is there also a random backoff after an increase of the polling interval?

[ntp:questions] Is there a document that describes the recommandation for configuring ntp ?

2008-02-13 Thread Thierry MARTIN
Hi all, Many of you kindly answered my previous questions, thanks a lot for that. Now I realise that I got a lot of tips, that might be included in a recommandations doc. So my quesiton becomes: Is there a document that describes the recommandation for configuring ntp? I mean -for instance-,

Re: [ntp:questions] Is there a document that describes the recommandation for configuring ntp ?

2008-02-13 Thread Martin Burnicki
Hi Thierry, Thierry MARTIN wrote: Hi all, Many of you kindly answered my previous questions, thanks a lot for that. Now I realise that I got a lot of tips, that might be included in a recommandations doc. So my quesiton becomes: Is there a document that describes the recommandation

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP and ADAM

2008-02-13 Thread Martin Burnicki
noosh wrote: Martin Burnicki wrote: Neither the GPS nor the ADAM are NTP servers, so why should a client find it? if i do the following GPS--- PC(NTP) Serial Port the time is synchronized by GPS. Right. However the PC is your NTP server and the

Re: [ntp:questions] Is there a document that describes the recommandation for configuring ntp ?

2008-02-13 Thread Thierry MARTIN
This looks like what I was looking for. Thank you. Martin Burnicki a écrit : Hi Thierry, Thierry MARTIN wrote: Hi all, Many of you kindly answered my previous questions, thanks a lot for that. Now I realise that I got a lot of tips, that might be included in a recommandations doc.

Re: [ntp:questions] Geographical diversity of Stratum 1 servers

2008-02-13 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
Peter Laws wrote: Looking for a reference on geographical diversity of Stratum 1 servers (GPS appliances, in this case). We have two clocks now (an old Datum TymServ with a Symetricom sticker) and another unknown brand. We'd like to add a third at a completely different facility a mile or

Re: [ntp:questions] Starting ISC NTP -4.2.4

2008-02-13 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2008-02-13, Aggarwal Vivek-Q4997C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Iam trying to install ISC NTP-4.2.4 on RHEL 4. But Im not able to start the services. There is no such thing as ISC NTP. You are probably using the NTP Reference Implementation from www.ntp.org. I firstly removed the default rpm

Re: [ntp:questions] Is there a document that describes the recommandation for configuring ntp ?

2008-02-13 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
Thierry MARTIN wrote: Hi all, Many of you kindly answered my previous questions, thanks a lot for that. Now I realise that I got a lot of tips, that might be included in a recommandations doc. So my quesiton becomes: Is there a document that describes the recommandation for

Re: [ntp:questions] Geographical diversity of Stratum 1 servers

2008-02-13 Thread Jason Rabel
The GPS computation of location, elevation, and time involves a system of four simultaneous equations which can be solved for time, lattitude, longitude, and elevation. Doing an extended site survey can refine your location and elevation. The better location data, the better the

Re: [ntp:questions] Geographical diversity of Stratum 1 servers

2008-02-13 Thread Jason Rabel
Are both your current clocks using the same GPS antenna? If so, there is a common point of failure right there. If you put a 3rd clock w/3rd antenna at a different location you can do some interesting measurements between the 3. GPS is going to give you the most accurate / stable time (assuming

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

2008-02-13 Thread David L. Mills
Maarten, The natural behavior of a bunch of oscillators near the same frequency is to become one giant phase-locked oscillator. Adding a bit of random fuzz at each poll turns each oscillator into a mini random-walk which breaks up that tendency. The fuzz is not a lot, like 10 percent. Dave