Re: [ntp:questions] New version of the Meinberg NTP Installer for Windows

2009-01-12 Thread Martin Burnicki
Chris, Chris wrote: Out of curiosity, how much time was spent porting ntpd to compile in win32? Since it appears the project is closed source, I'm interested in porting it myself. Just for completeness, we at Meinberg have just compiled the sources from ntp.org and put them into a GUI

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpd IPv6 support on Windows?

2009-01-12 Thread Martin Burnicki
Guys, Dave Hart wrote: I also note ports/winnt/include/config.h has this bit: /* * VS.NET's version of wspiapi.h has a bug in it * where it assigns a value to a variable inside * an if statement. It should be comparing them. * We prevent inclusion since we are not using this * code

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdate refusing ntp.nmi.nl

2009-01-12 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Folkert van Heusden schrieb: It seems the Dutch NMi organisation (which is the time reference for the Netherlands) has an NTP-service as well. Now I tried retrieving the time with ntpdate (just to see if it was reachable) but ntpdate refuses it. Using the regular ntp daemon works fine. Could

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdate refusing ntp.nmi.nl

2009-01-12 Thread Nero Imhard
They must have changed something! Their refid now reads PPS and the offset is much more reasonable: remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter == -ntp2.inrim.it .UTCI.

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpd IPv6 support on Windows?

2009-01-12 Thread David J Taylor
Martin Burnicki wrote: [] Here are a few thoughts: [] 5.) Finally, in order to be able to distribute a single binary which can be run on Windows with or without support for IPv6 the program fully needs to check at runtime whether IPv6 support is available, or not. I.e. it first has to try to

[ntp:questions] leap_add_sec still being advertised ?

2009-01-12 Thread Q
Is it me or are a *lot* of servers still advertising the leap from December ? 2 examples from one of my boxes, but most of the ones in the list are showing leap_add_sec. Or is there another leap coming in June, and everyone wants to get in early advertising it ? TIA. ntpq -c rv

Re: [ntp:questions] leap_add_sec still being advertised ?

2009-01-12 Thread David Malone
Q @.. writes: Is it me or are a *lot* of servers still advertising the leap from December ? 2 examples from one of my boxes, but most of the ones in the list are showing leap_add_sec. I've been graphing this since late November:

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdate refusing ntp.nmi.nl

2009-01-12 Thread Folkert van Heusden
Yes: got a mail from the mail responsible for the system. He told me that he manually disconnected the IRIG-B connection to the NTP server hardware. Then after resetting the time the server told him that it is locked to PPS. - more or less translated what he told me. On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at

[ntp:questions] rf links in the LAN

2009-01-12 Thread Mark Newman
If a system consists of a large LAN which consists of small fiber optic LANs connected together via an RF network what precision can be expected? One of the subLANs contains a STRATUM 1 server sync'ed via a precision clock. The other subLANs contain level 2 STRATUM servers. What precision

Re: [ntp:questions] rf links in the LAN

2009-01-12 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
Mark Newman wrote: If a system consists of a large LAN which consists of small fiber optic LANs connected together via an RF network what precision can be expected? One of the subLANs contains a STRATUM 1 server sync'ed via a precision clock. The other subLANs contain level 2 STRATUM

Re: [ntp:questions] GPS driver failure mode question

2009-01-12 Thread Unruh
Steve Kostecke koste...@ntp.org writes: On 2009-01-11, Terje Mathisen terje.mathi...@hda.hydro.com wrote: Steve Kostecke wrote: On 2009-01-08, Charles Brown charles.br...@sensis.com wrote: I have a processor with a serial GPS on a closed private network. If the GPS is not locked, or the

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP sever on an isolated Network

2009-01-12 Thread Diego Ramos
My Boss is going to buy the 3 Garmin models, so we can run tests and define which one is the best solution for the company. I told him I'll try to make the boards. :-) -- Now I'm stuck with another problem. A guy from my department used to synchronize the computer clock

Re: [ntp:questions] leap_add_sec still being advertised ?

2009-01-12 Thread David Malone
Unruh unruh-s...@physics.ubc.ca writes: Well, the leap standard actually says that a leap second is possible at the end of any month, with June/dec being prefered, AprSep being next on the list and the rest being down there. Indeed - though that's not likely in the near future. Now, ntp has

Re: [ntp:questions] GPS driver failure mode question

2009-01-12 Thread Terje Mathisen
Unruh wrote: Steve Kostecke koste...@ntp.org writes: Never. The Undisciplined Clock Driver does poll the system clock (often misleadingly referred to as the local clock) _but_ the poll results are discarded. So ntpd never actually serves time _from_ the Undisciplined Local Clock.

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP sever on an isolated Network

2009-01-12 Thread Unruh
leitu...@gmail.com (Diego Ramos) writes: My Boss is going to buy the 3 Garmin models, so we can run tests and define which one is the best solution for the company. I told him I'll try to make the boards. :-) -- Now I'm stuck with another problem. A guy from my department

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP sever on an isolated Network

2009-01-12 Thread Harlan Stenn
In article f3c8d0240901121151p4151e445oe1c0292175b29...@mail.gmail.com, leitu...@gmail.com (Diego Ramos) writes: Diego Today I'm in Brazil dialing to USA NIST, it would be very interesting Diego to dial to a local phone line. Anyone knows what kind of refclock in Diego NTP is compatible with

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP sever on an isolated Network

2009-01-12 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2009-01-12, Unruh unruh-s...@physics.ubc.ca wrote: leitu...@gmail.com (Diego Ramos) writes: Today I'm in Brazil dialing to USA NIST, it would be very interesting to dial to a local phone line. Anyone knows what kind of refclock in NTP is compatible with NRC (ACTS didn't work). All. There

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP sever on an isolated Network

2009-01-12 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
Steve Kostecke wrote: On 2009-01-12, Unruh unruh-s...@physics.ubc.ca wrote: In general serial ports do NOT supply power. The RS232 standard does not state that any power should be supplied. Now, some may create serial ports which do, but those are out of standard and will depend on whose

Re: [ntp:questions] GPS driver failure mode question

2009-01-12 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2009-01-12, Unruh unruh-s...@physics.ubc.ca wrote: Steve Kostecke koste...@ntp.org writes: On 2009-01-11, Terje Mathisen terje.mathi...@hda.hydro.com wrote: Steve Kostecke wrote: ntpd _never_ serves time from the Undisciplined Local Clock. Never? Never. The Undisciplined Clock Driver

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpd IPv6 support on Windows?

2009-01-12 Thread Danny Mayer
Terje Mathisen wrote: Dave Hart wrote: On Jan 11, 6:04 pm, ma...@ntp.isc.org (Danny Mayer) wrote: Dave Hart wrote: I am not suggesting you to go referencing Wsp* functions willy-nilly to avoid some perceived (and insignificant) overhead of using published APIs. I'm suggesting you use the

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpd IPv6 support on Windows?

2009-01-12 Thread Dave Hart
On Jan 12, 6:52 pm, ma...@ntp.isc.org (Danny Mayer) wrote: And line 340-341 makes it clear that it's doing it's own lookups: // there was a new CNAME, look again. WspiapiSwap(pszName, pszAlias, pszScratch); That also means that it is not using the resolvers since CNAME restart is the job of

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP sever on an isolated Network

2009-01-12 Thread David J Taylor
Diego Ramos wrote: My Boss is going to buy the 3 Garmin models, so we can run tests and define which one is the best solution for the company. I told him I'll try to make the boards. :-) Diego, This is my simple system - if it helps: http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/FreeBSD-GPS-PPS.htm I made