Re: [ntp:questions] NTP - orphan mode with SAME stratum ("tos orphan 6") FAIL to sync.

2009-04-06 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2009-04-06, David Woolley wrote: > Steve Kostecke wrote: > >> "Sync" is usually defined as "calculating the offset between a clock and >> a reference standard, stepping or initiating a slew to correct the > > I doubt that many would consider the initiation of a slew as being > synchronised. I

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP - orphan mode with SAME stratum ("tos orphan 6") FAIL to sync.

2009-04-06 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2009-04-06, sheikdawoodraj...@gmail.com wrote: [snip: a 27 line block of text] > Yes, that's what I'm experimenting now. What are you experimenting with? > I beleive the Orphan Broadcast Mesh will work when none of the > systems configured with external time servers at all. Why don't you t

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP - orphan mode with SAME stratum ("tos orphan 6") FAIL to sync.

2009-04-06 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2009-04-06, David Mills wrote: > You scratch a sore spot as I verified over the last couple of days. You > can always increase the mindist, but eventually the orphan servers will > drift away from each other. Right. Because all of the servers are free-wheeling. > The problem is the orphan

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP - orphan mode with SAME stratum ("tos orphan 6") FAIL to sync.

2009-04-06 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2009-04-07, sheikdawoodraj...@gmail.com wrote: > On Apr 6, 12:32 pm, Steve Kostecke wrote: > >> OrphanMode is intended to select _one_ leader from the group of >> Orphans when all other time sources are unreachable. It does so based >> on a randomly generated value. > > I read that NTP uses "

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP - orphan mode with SAME stratum ("tos orphan 6") FAIL to sync.

2009-04-06 Thread sheikdawoodrajali
On Apr 6, 12:32 pm, Steve Kostecke wrote: > On 2009-04-06, David Woolley wrote: > > > Seems to me that iforphanmodeis using narrow error bands, it is not > > going to work in many  or most cases where people would want to use it! > > > It needs to work when there never was a real time source (pro

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP - orphan mode with SAME stratum ("tos orphan 6") FAIL to sync.

2009-04-06 Thread sheikdawoodrajali
> In order to minimuze the grief this can cause if the sources are very > precise and have very low synchronization distance, but doffer by more > than a few ms, a shim can be added to the correctness interval using the > tos mindist comand. [Dawood] Does any ntp variable holds the value of "sync

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP - orphan mode with SAME stratum ("tos orphan 6") FAIL to sync.

2009-04-06 Thread sheikdawoodrajali
On Apr 6, 12:40 pm, Steve Kostecke wrote: > On 2009-04-02, sheikdawoodraj...@gmail.com wrote: > > I am testing "Time Island" in NTP on Windows platform. I built the > > binaries using source downloaded from meinberg site. > > > Binaries built successfully and I'm testing it now. > > > NTP on ALL t

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP - orphan mode with SAME stratum ("tos orphan 6") FAIL to sync.

2009-04-06 Thread David Mills
Steve, You scratch a sore spot as I verified over the last couple of days. You can always increase the mindist, but eventually the orphan servers will drift away from each other. The problem is the orphan server has to be selected before the intersection algorithm. I changed that in the develo

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP - orphan mode with SAME stratum ("tos orphan 6") FAIL to sync.

2009-04-06 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2009-04-06, David Woolley wrote: > Steve Kostecke wrote: >> On 2009-04-02, sheikdawoodraj...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> When all the 7 nodes have the same config, using "orphan stratum 6" >> >> I don't understand what you mean by: > > I believe he means (give or take actual syntax). You elided

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP - orphan mode with SAME stratum ("tos orphan 6") FAIL to sync.

2009-04-06 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2009-04-06, David Woolley wrote: > Steve Kostecke wrote: >> >> Orphan Mode is intended to select _one_ leader from the group of Orphans >> when all other time sources are unreachable. It does so based on a >> randomly generated value. >> > > That's what it is intended to do, but what people s

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP - orphan mode with SAME stratum ("tos orphan 6") FAIL to sync.

2009-04-06 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2009-04-06, Unruh wrote: > Steve Kostecke writes: > >>On 2009-04-06, Unruh wrote: >> >>> ntp can take 10 hours or more to sync. > >>I believe you mean "ntp can take 10 hours or more to amortize a >>clock's offset within the limits of the hardware." > > Yes, that is what I meant. Please stop

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP - orphan mode with SAME stratum ("tos orphan 6") FAIL to sync.

2009-04-06 Thread David Woolley
Steve Kostecke wrote: > "Sync" is usually defined as "calculating the offset between a clock and > a reference standard, stepping or initiating a slew to correct the I doubt that many would consider the initiation of a slew as being synchronised. I would suggest most people would define synchro

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP - orphan mode with SAME stratum ("tos orphan 6") FAIL to sync.

2009-04-06 Thread David Woolley
Steve Kostecke wrote: > > Orphan Mode is intended to select _one_ leader from the group of Orphans > when all other time sources are unreachable. It does so based on a > randomly generated value. > That's what it is intended to do, but what people seem to be saying here is that it will easily

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP - orphan mode with SAME stratum ("tos orphan 6") FAIL to sync.

2009-04-06 Thread David Woolley
Steve Kostecke wrote: > On 2009-04-02, sheikdawoodraj...@gmail.com wrote: ured with real time sources. > >> Problem: -- >> When all the 7 nodes have the same config, using "orphan stratum 6" > > I don't understand what you mean by: > I believe he means (give or take actual syntax).

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP - orphan mode with SAME stratum ("tos orphan 6") FAIL to sync.

2009-04-06 Thread Unruh
Steve Kostecke writes: >On 2009-04-06, Unruh wrote: >> sheikdawoodraj...@gmail.com writes: >>>When I tried running this test case again the next day with (approx >>>25/30/40 minutes difference in 3 of the systems out of 7), the time >>>sync didn't happened for a while (approx 1 hour) or so. x c

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP - orphan mode with SAME stratum ("tos orphan 6") FAIL to sync.

2009-04-06 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2009-04-06, Unruh wrote: > sheikdawoodraj...@gmail.com writes: >>When I tried running this test case again the next day with (approx >>25/30/40 minutes difference in 3 of the systems out of 7), the time >>sync didn't happened for a while (approx 1 hour) or so. x conditions >>remained the same

[ntp:questions] Solved - ntpd service doesn't connect to remote servers on Windows XP

2009-04-06 Thread David J Taylor
My friend's ISP had an unknown feature - a firewall on the ISP side which blocked traffic other than Web and e-mail. Changing that firewall setting from "high" to "low" and restarting his router allowed NTP to work correctly and discipline his PC's clock. Thanks to all the help and suggestions

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP - orphan mode with SAME stratum ("tos orphan 6") FAIL to sync.

2009-04-06 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2009-04-06, David Woolley wrote: > Seems to me that if orphan mode is using narrow error bands, it is not > going to work in many or most cases where people would want to use it! > > It needs to work when there never was a real time source (probably the > main reason people will actually us

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP - orphan mode with SAME stratum ("tos orphan 6") FAIL to sync.

2009-04-06 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2009-04-02, sheikdawoodraj...@gmail.com wrote: > I am testing "Time Island" in NTP on Windows platform. I built the > binaries using source downloaded from meinberg site. > > Binaries built successfully and I'm testing it now. > > NTP on ALL the nodes (7 nodes) with SAME stratum "orphan stratum

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP - orphan mode with SAME stratum ("tos orphan 6") FAIL to sync.

2009-04-06 Thread Unruh
sheikdawoodraj...@gmail.com writes: >Mills, >[Dawood] The broadcast was successful after adding shim (Setting "tos >mindist >0.010") to the correctness interval. It worked fine once but when I >tried again the time-sync was -not- successful. Could it be a problem >in the >network configuration(s)

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP - orphan mode with SAME stratum ("tos orphan 6") FAIL to sync.

2009-04-06 Thread David Mills
sheikdawoodraj...@gmail.com, I don't understand your question. The interwsection algorithm doesn' t care if ther are two or twenty parcicipants in the argument. Dave sheikdawoodraj...@gmail.com wrote: >On Apr 3, 12:42 pm, mi...@udel.edu (David Mills) wrote: > > >>sheikdawoodraj...@gmail.com,

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Re: [ntp:questions] ntpd service doesn't connect to remote servers on Windows XP

2009-04-06 Thread Danny Mayer
David Woolley wrote: > Danny Mayer wrote: >> Instead of all that, just run netstat -an from the command line and see >> if there is anything using 123/UDP port on the local addresses. You can >> then used netstat -ano to get the PID of the application using that port. > > He is running Windows. T

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpd service doesn't connect to remote servers on Windows XP

2009-04-06 Thread David J Taylor
David Woolley wrote: > Danny Mayer wrote: >> >> Instead of all that, just run netstat -an from the command line and >> see if there is anything using 123/UDP port on the local addresses. >> You can then used netstat -ano to get the PID of the application >> using that port. > > He is running Window

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP - orphan mode with SAME stratum ("tos orphan 6") FAIL to sync.

2009-04-06 Thread David Woolley
sheikdawoodraj...@gmail.com wrote: > [Dawood] I assume the systems with SAME stratum "orphan stratum 6" > identically > configured both as broadcast client and broadcast server ("Time > Island") will > work fine WITHOUT a shim IF there are more than TWO sources?? No. You still require that at l

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP - orphan mode with SAME stratum ("tos orphan 6") FAIL to sync.

2009-04-06 Thread sheikdawoodrajali
Mills, [Dawood] The broadcast was successful after adding shim (Setting "tos mindist 0.010") to the correctness interval. It worked fine once but when I tried again the time-sync was -not- successful. Could it be a problem in the network configuration(s) -or- something else ? >> What I exactly me

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP - orphan mode with SAME stratum ("tos orphan 6") FAIL to sync.

2009-04-06 Thread sheikdawoodrajali
On Apr 3, 12:42 pm, mi...@udel.edu (David Mills) wrote: > sheikdawoodraj...@gmail.com, > > You might want to review the architecture briefing on the NTP Project > Page. Note the definitions of correctness interval, intersection > algorithm and majority subset. With only two sources there can be onl

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP - orphan mode with SAME stratum ("tos orphan 6") FAIL to sync.

2009-04-06 Thread sheikdawoodrajali
Mills, Thank you very much for your explanation. I went through the definitions of NTP "correctness interval, intersection algorithm and majority subset". The broadcast was successful after adding shim (Setting "tos mindist 0.010") to the correctness interval. It worked fine once but when I tried