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

2009-01-13 Thread David J Taylor
Dave Hart wrote: On Jan 12, 6:52 pm, ma...@ntp.isc.org (Danny Mayer) wrote: We won't be supporting IPv6 on Windows 2000, it's just too difficult to deal with from a support point of view. OK, Windows 2000 is too difficult to deal with from a support point of view. Why on earth have we been

[ntp:questions] Bugfix Release for NTP Installer for Windows (4.2....@vegas-v2)

2009-01-13 Thread Heiko Gerstung
Hi there! We spotted a network problem with the NTPD binary that has been included in our Vegas installer and therefore released vegas-v2 which can be downloaded on our website. Most likely users with wifi, dialup or other slow (i.e. with delayed initialization) connection types are affected

Re: [ntp:questions] Bugfix Release for NTP Installer for Windows (4.2....@vegas-v2)

2009-01-13 Thread David J Taylor
Heiko Gerstung wrote: Hi there! [] Sorry for the fuzz and trouble, I hope we catched this early enough. Any questions? Please contact us at ntp-supp...@meinberg.de ... Best Regards, Heiko Heiko, Thanks for the update. I now have the running on all my Windows PCs (Windows 2000

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

2009-01-13 Thread Ronan Flood
dwmal...@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone) wrote: Exactly - I think this lingering-leapbits thing is a problem that probably needs to be looked at, but it unlikely to cause many problems in the near future. The rules for passing on leap bits have gradually changed, and I guess what we are seeing is

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

2009-01-13 Thread David Malone
Ronan Flood use...@umbral.org.uk writes: Current ntp-stable has this comment in ntp_proto.c * combining algorithm. Consider each peer in turn and OR the * leap bits on the assumption that, if some of them honk * nonzero bits, they must know what they are doing. This has been changed in

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

2009-01-13 Thread Danny Mayer
Dave Hart wrote: 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

Re: [ntp:questions] Bugfix Release for NTP Installer for Windows (4.2....@vegas-v2)

2009-01-13 Thread Danny Mayer
David J Taylor wrote: Heiko Gerstung wrote: Hi there! [] Sorry for the fuzz and trouble, I hope we catched this early enough. Any questions? Please contact us at ntp-supp...@meinberg.de ... Best Regards, Heiko Heiko, Thanks for the update. I now have the running on all my Windows

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

2009-01-13 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2009-01-13, Dave Hart daveh...@gmail.com wrote: Just build a binary that requires WinXP/Windows Server 2003 or The NTP Project releases The NTP Reference Implementation only as source code. -- Steve Kostecke koste...@ntp.org NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/

Re: [ntp:questions] Bugfix Release for NTP Installer for Windows (4.2....@vegas-v2)

2009-01-13 Thread David J Taylor
Danny Mayer wrote: David J Taylor wrote: Heiko, [] One question is whether, on Vista, the installer should provide the option of opening port 123/udp to the outside world so that systems can be monitored or managed? It would be nice to have it in the installer, with the default off,

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

2009-01-13 Thread Charles Brown
I linked from the LCL driver to the Orphan Mode documentation, and this seems to be the answer to my original (poor) question. Three questions on orphan mode; First, the orphan mode page says; Each orphan child chooses the orphan parent as the root server with the smallest value.

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

2009-01-13 Thread Mark Newman
--- On Mon, 1/12/09, marknmbox...@yahoo.com marknmbox...@yahoo.com wrote: From: marknmbox...@yahoo.com marknmbox...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] rf links in the LAN To: rgilber...@comcast.net Date: Monday, January 12, 2009, 2:54 PM Sorry this should have the CR/LFs. The numbers that

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

2009-01-13 Thread Martin Burnicki
Danny, I think I still have the dynamic DLL function import code lying around. Should I try to add it to the current ntp-dev so you just had to care about calling the functions and evaluating the results to see if IPv6 is supported? That should save you quite a bunch of work. Martin -- Martin

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

2009-01-13 Thread Dave Hart
On Jan 13, 4:38 am, ma...@ntp.isc.org (Danny Mayer) wrote: I was very specific here: I won't support Windows 2000 and IPv6. I did not say anything about not supporting Windows 2000 with IPv4. There is nothing more difficult about supporting IPv6 on Windows 2000 from a code perspective, since

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

2009-01-13 Thread Dave Hart
On Jan 13, 5:39 am, Steve Kostecke koste...@ntp.org wrote: On 2009-01-13, Dave Hart daveh...@gmail.com wrote: Just build a binary that requires WinXP/Windows Server 2003 or The NTP Project releases The NTP Reference Implementation only as source code. Steve Kostecke koste...@ntp.org NTP

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

2009-01-13 Thread Dave Hart
On Jan 13, 4:42 am, ma...@ntp.isc.org (Danny Mayer) wrote: Dave Hart wrote: 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);

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

2009-01-13 Thread Danny Mayer
Martin Burnicki wrote: Danny, I think I still have the dynamic DLL function import code lying around. Should I try to add it to the current ntp-dev so you just had to care about calling the functions and evaluating the results to see if IPv6 is supported? That should save you quite a bunch

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

2009-01-13 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2009-01-12, Charles Brown charles.br...@sensis.com wrote: Three questions on orphan mode; First, the orphan mode page says; Each orphan child chooses the orphan parent as the root server with the smallest value. Which value is that? Stratum? No. The stratum is set on the 'tos orphan

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

2009-01-13 Thread Q
Unruh unruh-s...@physics.ubc.ca wrote in message news:jbmal.4597$ph1.2...@edtnps82... dwmal...@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone) 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

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

2009-01-13 Thread Unruh
Steve Kostecke koste...@ntp.org writes: 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

Re: [ntp:questions] Close stats files

2009-01-13 Thread David Woolley
alkope...@googlemail.com wrote: PS: I have to to this because my ntp servers run on 1 GB SD cards and there is not much space for stats files ;-) You should be very wary of any frequently written file on flash RAM. ___ questions mailing list

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

2009-01-13 Thread David Woolley
Heiko Gerstung wrote: In the NTPv4 draft you will find a (similar) definition: Root dispersion indicates the maximum error, that does not necessarily mean that this is the current error. And maximum error means theoretical worst case, not that this value has actually been reached at any

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

2009-01-13 Thread David Woolley
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

2009-01-13 Thread David Mills
Charles, Orphan mode is described on the Assocdiation Management page. With respect to the value you cite, see the previous sentence in the description. Note the online documentation is for the development branch. The release branch has a mongrel collection of possibly incompatible older

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

2009-01-13 Thread Chris
On Jan 12, 3:22 am, Martin Burnicki martin.burni...@meinberg.de wrote: 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

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

2009-01-13 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2009-01-14, Chris givemeafckingacctyoudou...@gmail.com wrote: My mistake, I didn't see a source download on the Meinberg web site so assumed the win32 version was closed-source. The primary download page for the NTP Reference Implmentation source is on The NTP Project web-site:

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

2009-01-13 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2009-01-13, David Mills mi...@udel.edu wrote: Orphan mode is described on the Assocdiation Management page. With respect to the value you cite, see the previous sentence in the description. Note the online documentation at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/ is for the

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

2009-01-13 Thread David Mills
Steve, Not quite. The ntp.org page official documentation pointts to the online development branch documenatatation that I provide. However, the documentation archive may have what you want. As I have bleeped many, many tmies, the onlhy safe way to get the documentaqtion that applies to a

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

2009-01-13 Thread Brian Inglis
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:17:37 GMT in comp.protocols.time.ntp, Unruh unruh-s...@physics.ubc.ca wrote: Unruh unruh-s...@physics.ubc.ca writes: No boards needed for usb or PC ( except for a 12V supply for the latter. You could use a portable computer brick charger or even a cell phone charger (if