Re: [ntp:questions] The libntp resumee...

2008-10-13 Thread Ryan Malayter
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Richard B. Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, a system that has been synchronized by NTP will tend to stay close to the correct time for a reasonable period of time as long as the environment does not change significantly. If the network fails AND the air

Re: [ntp:questions] The libntp resumee...

2008-10-13 Thread David Woolley
Danny Mayer wrote: Kay Hayen wrote: And iburst and minpoll=maxpoll=5 to improve the results. This indicates that you don't understand NTP. You should never ever change the minpoll and maxpoll values unless you understand the NTP algorithms in detail and understand the consequences of

Re: [ntp:questions] Source address in response not the same as target address in request

2008-10-13 Thread Rick Jones
Danny Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick Jones wrote: If it simply sends via the socket on which the query was recieved, having bound that socket to a given IP should result in that IP being used as the source IP of the response. Perhaps there is a reason to send via another socket,

Re: [ntp:questions] The libntp resumee...

2008-10-13 Thread Unruh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Danny Mayer) writes: ... Briefly, you use the defaults for MINPOLL and MAXPOLL. You may use the iburst keyword in a server statement for fast startup. You may use the burst keyword ONLY with the permission of the the server's owner. 99.99% of NTP installations will work

Re: [ntp:questions] Does the EU or European country have an equivalent of http://www.usno.navy.mil ?

2008-10-13 Thread Brian Inglis
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 14:29:41 GMT in comp.protocols.time.ntp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gretchen Baxter) wrote: I am doing research for my employer around time synchronization. I have found a lot of good information at http://www.usno.navy.mil But does the EU or other European countries have a similar

Re: [ntp:questions] Thoughts on huff and puff

2008-10-13 Thread David L. Mills
David, You have a very good point. Orphan mode has been around for more than a year and has been carefully described in the online documentation and snapshots. Users of the release version, which is a cherrypicked but incomplete extract of various fixes and improvements over the year, may