Re: [ntp:questions] Mixed maxpoll values for mixed LAN/Internet servers - sensible?

2009-03-03 Thread Harlan Stenn
>>> In article <8ylql.1528$lc7.1...@text.news.virginmedia.com>, "David J >>> Taylor" writes: Harlan> Become a member of the NTP Forum. David> I applied and heard nothing. I'll look to see what happened there. Harlan> Get companies you work with/for to become members. David> I applied and hear

Re: [ntp:questions] http://www.ntp.org/ => a blank page?

2009-03-03 Thread David J Taylor
Steve Kostecke wrote: [] > The canonnical address for contacting the individuals responsible for > the operation of any web-site is webmas...@thedomain. One does not > need to see a web-page to learn this. Steve, I'm delighted to hear that ntp.org still conform to this convention, but very many W

Re: [ntp:questions] http://www.ntp.org/ => a blank page?

2009-03-03 Thread Harlan Stenn
>>> In article , Rob >>> writes: Rob> David Mills wrote: >> Rob, >> >> The only address supported here are on 128.4. >> >> Dave Rob> The 128.4 address is working again. However, when you think it is the Rob> only address supported, you need to update the DNS. A DNS query for Rob> www.ntp.o

Re: [ntp:questions] Proposed NTP solution for a network

2009-03-03 Thread Jason
David Woolley wrote: > Richard B. Gilbert wrote: > >> >> A very poor configuration if accuracy is wanted. Typically, one >> "edge", leading or trailing, of the PPS output is within 50 to 100 >> nanoseconds of the "top of the second"! The serial output tells you >> the time value of the PPS "e

Re: [ntp:questions] Proposed NTP solution for a network

2009-03-03 Thread Jason
Unruh wrote: > Jason writes: > >> Terje Mathisen wrote: >>> David J Taylor wrote: Jason wrote: [] > G. What have I missed, or gotten confused? [] > Thanks, > > Jason. You forgot to say what the going rate is for the consultancy you want! >>> Indeed.

Re: [ntp:questions] Proposed NTP solution for a network

2009-03-03 Thread Jason
Terje Mathisen wrote: > Jason wrote: >> The critical time-stamp of the transactions must be tighter than 100us. > > Sorry, no can do, except probabilistically: You can get X% of time > samples within 100us, as measured by the loopstats file on each client > machine, but you cannot guarantee it u

Re: [ntp:questions] Proposed NTP solution for a network

2009-03-03 Thread Jason
David Woolley wrote: > Terje Mathisen wrote: > >> >> OTOH 100-1000 us is in fact quite doable using standard NTP. > > As I read it, the 10s of microseconds constraint applied to the whole > network. The 100s of microseconds allowance was between the system and > UTC. The 10s of us applies to a

Re: [ntp:questions] http://www.ntp.org/ => a blank page?

2009-03-03 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2009-03-03, David J Taylor wrote: > A practice I abhor, to be honest. If I read something in a newsgroup, I > expect a response in a newsgroup, not some personal e-mail, although the > newsreader I use does allow simultaneous posting to a newsgroup and a > direct e-mail. Once again, you'

Re: [ntp:questions] http://www.ntp.org/ => a blank page?

2009-03-03 Thread David J Taylor
Steve Kostecke wrote: > On 2009-03-03, David J Taylor wrote: [] >> I did not "complain", I asked whether what I was seeing was correct, >> and some others confirmed this. > > Quibling over which word I used misses the point. To me there is a distinct difference between reporting something and as

Re: [ntp:questions] What is the "best" synchronization possible over the network?

2009-03-03 Thread Hal Murray
>Actually, 50E6 seconds is 578 days. It's not out of the question to >have a third clock always sync-ed to GPS, fed off a 48V battery, and >drive it to the data centers twice a year to slave the local oscillators. Thanks for catching my fat-finger. Yes, that's what I was fishing for. -- The

Re: [ntp:questions] Proposed NTP solution for a network

2009-03-03 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
Augustine wrote: > One concern I have is about stepping the time backwards. NTP may do > this and you must be aware of its impact on your time stamping > requirements. > > HTH NTP does this ONLY when the time is off by 128 milliseconds or more. If NTP is that far off, other than at startup, so

Re: [ntp:questions] Proposed NTP solution for a network

2009-03-03 Thread David Woolley
Richard B. Gilbert wrote: > > A very poor configuration if accuracy is wanted. Typically, one "edge", > leading or trailing, of the PPS output is within 50 to 100 nanoseconds > of the "top of the second"! The serial output tells you the time value > of the PPS "edge". As I read it, the PPS

Re: [ntp:questions] Proposed NTP solution for a network

2009-03-03 Thread David Woolley
Terje Mathisen wrote: > > OTOH 100-1000 us is in fact quite doable using standard NTP. As I read it, the 10s of microseconds constraint applied to the whole network. The 100s of microseconds allowance was between the system and UTC. ___ questions ma

Re: [ntp:questions] Proposed NTP solution for a network

2009-03-03 Thread Unruh
Jason writes: >Terje Mathisen wrote: >> David J Taylor wrote: >>> Jason wrote: >>> [] G. What have I missed, or gotten confused? >>> [] Thanks, Jason. >>> >>> You forgot to say what the going rate is for the consultancy you want! >>> >>> >> > > Indeed. My standard rate is $2

Re: [ntp:questions] http://www.ntp.org/ => a blank page?

2009-03-03 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2009-03-03, David J Taylor wrote: > Steve Kostecke wrote: [] > >> I reported the problem using the correct channels and it was >> resolved. >> >> You're very lucky that I read the news-group before starting to work >> this morning; I don't always do so. If I had not I would not have >> seen yo

Re: [ntp:questions] Proposed NTP solution for a network

2009-03-03 Thread Ryan Malayter
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Jason wrote: > The critical time-stamp of the transactions must be tighter than 100us. As others have stated, this is likely not possible using Ethernet, especially on blade servers, which often share IO channels. You will likely see switch queuing latencies higher

Re: [ntp:questions] http://www.ntp.org/ => a blank page?

2009-03-03 Thread Rob
David Mills wrote: > Rob, > > The only address supported here are on 128.4. > > Dave The 128.4 address is working again. However, when you think it is the only address supported, you need to update the DNS. A DNS query for www.ntp.org returns the 204.152.184.138 address as well. Maybe this was n

Re: [ntp:questions] Proposed NTP solution for a network

2009-03-03 Thread Augustine
One concern I have is about stepping the time backwards. NTP may do this and you must be aware of its impact on your time stamping requirements. HTH ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] http://www.ntp.org/ => a blank page?

2009-03-03 Thread David J Taylor
Steve Kostecke wrote: [] > I reported the problem using the correct channels and it was resolved. > > You're very lucky that I read the news-group before starting to work > this morning; I don't always do so. If I had not I would not have seen > your complaint for many hours, possibly not until ton

Re: [ntp:questions] http://www.ntp.org/ => a blank page?

2009-03-03 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2009-03-03, David J Taylor wrote: > 128.4.35.16 is the address I'm seeing. Something on your end is not working correctly. Both addresses are in DNS (open, or otherwise) and others have reported that their browsers are using, or failing over to, the non 128 address. > The tracert is > faili

Re: [ntp:questions] http://www.ntp.org/ => a blank page?

2009-03-03 Thread David Mills
Rob, The only address supported here are on 128.4. Dave Rob wrote: >David J Taylor wrote: > > >>Terje Mathisen" <"terje.mathisen at tmsw.no wrote: >> >> >>>David J Taylor wrote: >>> >>> http://www.ntp.org/ => a blank page in both Firefox and Internet Explorer Is this correc

Re: [ntp:questions] http://www.ntp.org/ => a blank page?

2009-03-03 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2009-03-03, David J Taylor wrote: > Guess I will wait for OpenDNS to become updated... http://www.opendns.com/support/article/197 lists the OpenDNS nameserver addresses. $ host www.ntp.org 208.67.220.220 www.ntp.org A 128.4.35.16 www.ntp.org A 204.152.184.

Re: [ntp:questions] http://www.ntp.org/ => a blank page?

2009-03-03 Thread David J Taylor
Steve Kostecke wrote: > On 2009-03-03, David J Taylor wrote: > >> Guess I will wait for OpenDNS to become updated... > > http://www.opendns.com/support/article/197 lists the OpenDNS > nameserver addresses. > > $ host www.ntp.org 208.67.220.220 > www.ntp.org A 128.4.35.16 > www.nt

Re: [ntp:questions] Proposed NTP solution for a network

2009-03-03 Thread Terje Mathisen
Jason wrote: > The critical time-stamp of the transactions must be tighter than 100us. Sorry, no can do, except probabilistically: You can get X% of time samples within 100us, as measured by the loopstats file on each client machine, but you cannot guarantee it up front. OTOH, what you _can_ do

Re: [ntp:questions] http://www.ntp.org/ => a blank page?

2009-03-03 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2009-03-03, Rob wrote: > David J Taylor wrote: >> >> Tracing route to www.ntp.org [128.4.35.16] > > That IP address is dead. The system is running (I just checked) and apache is responding on the localhost. It has likely been firewalled off from the w

Re: [ntp:questions] http://www.ntp.org/ => a blank page?

2009-03-03 Thread Rob
Steve Kostecke wrote: >> But it has two IPv4 addresses. Under the address 204.152.184.138 it >> works OK. > > That's our off-site back-up. Well, in DNS it says: www.ntp.org has address 128.4.35.16 www.ntp.org has address 204.152.184.138 www.ntp.org has IPv6 address 2001:4f8:0:2::23 So apparently

Re: [ntp:questions] http://www.ntp.org/ => a blank page?

2009-03-03 Thread David J Taylor
Rob wrote: > David J Taylor > wrote: >> Terje Mathisen" <"terje.mathisen at tmsw.no wrote: >>> David J Taylor wrote: http://www.ntp.org/ => a blank page in both Firefox and Internet Explorer Is this correct? >>> >>> No, it works here, now (20 minutes after your post). >>> >>> Terje >>

Re: [ntp:questions] Proposed NTP solution for a network

2009-03-03 Thread Jason
Terje Mathisen wrote: > David J Taylor wrote: >> Jason wrote: >> [] >>> G. What have I missed, or gotten confused? >> [] >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Jason. >> >> You forgot to say what the going rate is for the consultancy you want! >> >> > > Indeed. My standard rate is $200+ per hour. > > First of al

Re: [ntp:questions] Proposed NTP solution for a network

2009-03-03 Thread Jason
Terje Mathisen wrote: > David J Taylor wrote: >> Jason wrote: >> [] >>> G. What have I missed, or gotten confused? >> [] >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Jason. >> >> You forgot to say what the going rate is for the consultancy you want! >> >> > > Indeed. My standard rate is $200+ per hour. > > First of al

Re: [ntp:questions] http://www.ntp.org/ => a blank page?

2009-03-03 Thread Phil . Newlon
Blank for me too. "Richard B. Gilbert"

Re: [ntp:questions] Proposed NTP solution for a network

2009-03-03 Thread Jason
Grin! Actually, I'm working on that with management, unfortunately without much progress. Jason. David J Taylor wrote: > Jason wrote: > [] >> G. What have I missed, or gotten confused? > [] >> Thanks, >> >> Jason. > > You forgot to say what the going rate is for the consultancy you want! > >

Re: [ntp:questions] http://www.ntp.org/ => a blank page?

2009-03-03 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
David J Taylor wrote: > http://www.ntp.org/ => a blank page in both Firefox and Internet Explorer > > Is this correct? It works for me! ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Proposed NTP solution for a network

2009-03-03 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
Jason wrote: > Below is a description of the environment, and my thoughts on, a > resilient and precise NTP configuration. All comments, suggestions, etc. > are welcome, indeed requested. I am not a software type, rather networks > and hardware, so please consider that with comments and question

Re: [ntp:questions] Sorry. Just a test post this time

2009-03-03 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
Maarten Wiltink wrote: > wrote in message > news:3af3f$49aca77c$47c546f2$29...@news.flashnewsgroups.com... > >> Just testing. I'm expecting this to fail to post anyway. > > Why? > Because he hasn't a clue? ___ questions mailing list questions@lists

Re: [ntp:questions] http://www.ntp.org/ => a blank page?

2009-03-03 Thread Rob
David J Taylor wrote: > Terje Mathisen" <"terje.mathisen at tmsw.no wrote: >> David J Taylor wrote: >>> http://www.ntp.org/ => a blank page in both Firefox and Internet >>> Explorer Is this correct? >> >> No, it works here, now (20 minutes after your post). >> >> Terje > > Thanks, Terje. Still bl

Re: [ntp:questions] Sorry. Just a test post this time

2009-03-03 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
tomny...@router1.chaos.home wrote: > Just testing. I'm expecting this to fail to post anyway. Moron! There are test newsgroups if you feel that you absolutely MUST post a test message! ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.

Re: [ntp:questions] http://www.ntp.org/ => a blank page?

2009-03-03 Thread David J Taylor
Terje Mathisen" <"terje.mathisen at tmsw.no wrote: > David J Taylor wrote: >> http://www.ntp.org/ => a blank page in both Firefox and Internet >> Explorer Is this correct? > > No, it works here, now (20 minutes after your post). > > Terje Thanks, Terje. Still blank here. I'm using OpenDNS server

Re: [ntp:questions] http://www.ntp.org/ => a blank page?

2009-03-03 Thread Terje Mathisen
David J Taylor wrote: > http://www.ntp.org/ => a blank page in both Firefox and Internet Explorer > > Is this correct? No, it works here, now (20 minutes after your post). Terje -- - "almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"

[ntp:questions] http://www.ntp.org/ => a blank page?

2009-03-03 Thread David J Taylor
http://www.ntp.org/ => a blank page in both Firefox and Internet Explorer Is this correct? Thanks, David ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Proposed NTP solution for a network

2009-03-03 Thread Terje Mathisen
David J Taylor wrote: > Jason wrote: > [] >> G. What have I missed, or gotten confused? > [] >> Thanks, >> >> Jason. > > You forgot to say what the going rate is for the consultancy you want! > > Indeed. My standard rate is $200+ per hour. First of all: The 10s of us requirement within a site

Re: [ntp:questions] Proposed NTP solution for a network

2009-03-03 Thread David Woolley
Jason wrote: > "precision" (that is, all the hosts should be within a few 10s of > microseconds, but they could be as much as a small hundreds of That is going to require very careful engineering. You may find it better to link the sites only via GPS, rather than have to prioritise NTP traffi

Re: [ntp:questions] Sorry. Just a test post this time

2009-03-03 Thread Maarten Wiltink
wrote in message news:3af3f$49aca77c$47c546f2$29...@news.flashnewsgroups.com... > Just testing. I'm expecting this to fail to post anyway. Why? Groetjes, Maarten Wiltink ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailma