Re: [ntp:questions] NTP Stratum

2013-02-06 Thread David Woolley
Mischanko, Edward T wrote: The ntpd selection protocol favors servers with a lower stratum level so your local clock should not be selected as long as there are servers with a lower stratum available. It might not become the system peer, but it might still be combined into the estimate

Re: [ntp:questions] Does the pool directive automatically imply preempt?

2013-02-06 Thread Terje Mathisen
David Taylor wrote: Does the pool directive automatically imply preempt in recent versions of NTP? It effectively does imply 'preempt', since a pool of servers (from a pool xyz statement) will be monitored and regularly filtered, replacing the worst servers with the results of a fresh dns

Re: [ntp:questions] Does the pool directive automatically imply preempt?

2013-02-06 Thread David Taylor
On 06/02/2013 13:02, Terje Mathisen wrote: David Taylor wrote: Does the pool directive automatically imply preempt in recent versions of NTP? It effectively does imply 'preempt', since a pool of servers (from a pool xyz statement) will be monitored and regularly filtered, replacing the worst

[ntp:questions] What do these messages say about the passage of time?

2013-02-06 Thread Rick Jones
What do these messages say, if anything, about the passage of time on the system? 5 Feb 17:30:40 ntpd[27435]: kernel time sync enabled 2001 5 Feb 18:56:03 ntpd[27435]: kernel time sync enabled 6001 5 Feb 19:13:08 ntpd[27435]: kernel time sync enabled 2001 5 Feb 21:46:51 ntpd[27435]: kernel

[ntp:questions] Confused about pool rotation

2013-02-06 Thread no-one
I am trying to get to know SNTP by doing some Winsock programming. In particular, I am using getaddrinfo(pool.ntp.org, 123, hints, gaires); where hints has been set up to define a socket type of SOCK_DGRAM and family of AF_INET. As expected, the Internet address returned in *gaires does

Re: [ntp:questions] Confused about pool rotation

2013-02-06 Thread E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists
On 2/6/2013 10:59 AM, no-...@no-place.org wrote: I am trying to get to know SNTP by doing some Winsock programming. In particular, I am using getaddrinfo(pool.ntp.org, 123, hints, gaires); where hints has been set up to define a socket type of SOCK_DGRAM and family of AF_INET. As

Re: [ntp:questions] Confused about pool rotation

2013-02-06 Thread no-one
On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 11:27:59 -0800, E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists Null@BlackList.Anitech-Systems.invalid wrote: You are likely using a caching DNS server in that PC's internet configuration? OK, that explains it. BTW, if you are going to distribute an

Re: [ntp:questions] Confused about pool rotation

2013-02-06 Thread Mike S
On 2/6/2013 2:40 PM, no-...@no-place.org wrote: Is that your domain, or are you doing a reverse denial of service attack on them? Why not just get a decent spam filter or at least follow RFC2606 by using no-one@foo.invalid? ___ questions mailing

Re: [ntp:questions] Confused about pool rotation

2013-02-06 Thread David Woolley
no-...@no-place.org wrote: where hints has been set up to define a socket type of SOCK_DGRAM and family of AF_INET. As expected, the Internet address returned in *gaires does change from time to time. But it seems that it often That could well be considered a denial of service attack on

Re: [ntp:questions] Confused about pool rotation

2013-02-06 Thread Robert Scott
On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:27:56 +, David Woolley david@ex.djwhome.demon.invalid wrote: no-...@no-place.org wrote: where hints has been set up to define a socket type of SOCK_DGRAM and family of AF_INET. As expected, the Internet address returned in *gaires does change from time to time.

Re: [ntp:questions] Confused about pool rotation

2013-02-06 Thread E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists
no-...@no-place.org wrote: Yes, I was just reading about that today. Eventually my use of SNTP will be integrated into a smartphone app and distributed globally. So would I get just one vendor zone for both my iPhone and my Android version of my app? Yes, as far as I can tell, only one

Re: [ntp:questions] Confused about pool rotation

2013-02-06 Thread Robert Scott
On Wed, 6 Feb 2013 20:49:26 GMT, Mike S mi...@flatsurface.com wrote: On 2/6/2013 2:40 PM, no-...@no-place.org wrote: Is that your domain, or are you doing a reverse denial of service attack on them? Why not just get a decent spam filter or at least follow RFC2606 by using no-one@foo.invalid?

Re: [ntp:questions] Confused about pool rotation

2013-02-06 Thread Robert Scott
Here is a related question: Suppose I wanted to improve my SNTP implementation by accessing several servers in a short span of time? (But I don't want the full overhead of NTP.) If DNS caching is returning the same address then how can I get several independent servers from the pool? I don't

Re: [ntp:questions] Confused about pool rotation

2013-02-06 Thread E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists
David Woolley wrote: no-...@no-place.org wrote: where hints has been set up to define a socket type of SOCK_DGRAM and family of AF_INET. As expected, the Internet address returned in *gaires does change from time to time. But it seems that it often returns the same value if I call it

Re: [ntp:questions] Confused about pool rotation

2013-02-06 Thread E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists
On 2/6/2013 1:45 PM, Robert Scott wrote: Here is a related question: Suppose I wanted to improve my SNTP implementation by accessing several servers in a short span of time? (But I don't want the full overhead of NTP.) If DNS caching is returning the same address then how can I get

Re: [ntp:questions] Confused about pool rotation

2013-02-06 Thread unruh
On 2013-02-06, Robert Scott no-one@notreal.invalid wrote: Here is a related question: Suppose I wanted to improve my SNTP implementation by accessing several servers in a short span of time? And how will this improve things? (But I don't want the full overhead of NTP.) If DNS caching is

Re: [ntp:questions] Confused about pool rotation

2013-02-06 Thread unruh
On 2013-02-06, Robert Scott no-one@notreal.invalid wrote: On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:27:56 +, David Woolley david@ex.djwhome.demon.invalid wrote: no-...@no-place.org wrote: where hints has been set up to define a socket type of SOCK_DGRAM and family of AF_INET. As expected, the Internet

Re: [ntp:questions] Confused about pool rotation

2013-02-06 Thread E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists
unruh wrote: You really do not know what you are doing, and are then going to inflict your knowledge on millions of people. At a ~ buck a app, like most he'll not likely care, with the app store keeping 60-70% of the price. Apps don't have to do anything really useful or well, they just

Re: [ntp:questions] Confused about pool rotation

2013-02-06 Thread Robert Scott
On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:52:31 -0800, E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists Null@BlackList.Anitech-Systems.invalid wrote: unruh wrote: You really do not know what you are doing, and are then going to inflict your knowledge on millions of people. At a ~ buck a app, like

Re: [ntp:questions] Confused about pool rotation

2013-02-06 Thread E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists
Robert Scott wrote: You are wrong on several count. First, the app store keeps 30% of the price. And secondly my app sells for $300. I sell about one a day. I have two competitors whose apps sell for $599 and $999. In my niche market I am the low-cost provider. (Shrug) Considering that

Re: [ntp:questions] Confused about pool rotation

2013-02-06 Thread E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists
BlackLists wrote: Considering that iPhones, and android phones can sync with NTP servers just fine without an extra APP, iPhone does with the e.g. 4 ATT stratum 1 servers it queries? 12.230.208.### and 12.230.209.### for the ATT iPhones Android: /system/etc/gps.conf NTP_SERVER

Re: [ntp:questions] Confused about pool rotation

2013-02-06 Thread E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists
BlackLists wrote: Considering that iPhones, and android phones can sync with NTP servers just fine without an extra APP, iPhone does with the e.g. 4 ATT stratum 1 servers it queries? FYI; 12.230.208.### and 12.230.209.### for the ATT iPhones BTW Android: /system/etc/gps.conf NTP_SERVER

Re: [ntp:questions] Confused about pool rotation

2013-02-06 Thread Robert Scott
On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:10:44 -0800, E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists Null@BlackList.Anitech-Systems.invalid wrote: (Shrug) Considering that iPhones, and android phones can sync with NTP servers just fine without an extra APP, and the SDKs have monotonic nanosecond

Re: [ntp:questions] Confused about pool rotation

2013-02-06 Thread John Hasler
Robert Scott writes: So I am trying to achieve 12 ppm frequency calibration by developing a temporary local time stamp that is disciplined by SNTP. I figure two SNTP samples about 2 to 4 hours apart will give the required frequency accuracy, assuming typical SNTP jitter. I don't see why this

Re: [ntp:questions] Confused about pool rotation

2013-02-06 Thread E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists
Robert Scott wrote: As I explained in another thread last week, my app is not a time app. It is a precision audio frequency measuring app. Oh, makes more sense now, how was I to know who you were? You message was not associated with the other thread; You provided no references to the

Re: [ntp:questions] Confused about pool rotation

2013-02-06 Thread unruh
On 2013-02-07, E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists Null@BlackList.Anitech-Systems.invalid wrote: Robert Scott wrote: the Android SDK. It would seem like what you could do in a short amount of time, would instead take several hours. His concern is that rate,

Re: [ntp:questions] Confused about pool rotation

2013-02-06 Thread Terje Mathisen
E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists wrote: Cell towers are already synchronized with stratum one servers and / or GPS, and usually contain stable oscillators e.g. rubidium, cesium, ... Most (GSM/3G/4G) cell towers make do with OCXOs/TCXOs, but very good ones,

Re: [ntp:questions] Confused about pool rotation

2013-02-06 Thread Terje Mathisen
John Hasler wrote: Robert Scott writes: So I am trying to achieve 12 ppm frequency calibration by developing a temporary local time stamp that is disciplined by SNTP. I figure two SNTP samples about 2 to 4 hours apart will give the required frequency accuracy, assuming typical SNTP jitter. I