Re: [ntp:questions] Strange refid

2013-11-12 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2013-11-12, John Hasler wrote: > Brian Utterback writes: > > However, it begs the question of why somebody thought that printing > > "M-" before characters with the high order bit turned on would be a > > good idea. > > ASCII characters with the high bit turned on are control characters. No, t

Re: [ntp:questions] ntp.conf on FreeBSD

2013-10-15 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2013-10-14, Rob wrote: > unruh wrote: > > On 2013-10-14, Rob wrote: > >> Steve Kostecke wrote: > >>> On 2013-10-12, unruh wrote: > >>> > That is good to hear, but does not solve the problem that ntp.conf is > there for the admin to make changes to in order to solve problems > pecu

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpd 4.2.6p5 will not synchronize to broadcast servers

2013-04-29 Thread Gary Johnson
Gary Johnson wrote: > Brian Utterback wrote: > > I think this is a duplicate of bug 629. > > > > On 4/24/2013 9:54 PM, Harlan Stenn wrote: > > > Gary, > > > > > > The short answer is "I don't know". I believe we have successfully u

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpd 4.2.6p5 will not synchronize to broadcast servers

2013-04-25 Thread Gary Johnson
Brian Utterback wrote: > I think this is a duplicate of bug 629. > > On 4/24/2013 9:54 PM, Harlan Stenn wrote: > > Gary, > > > > The short answer is "I don't know". I believe we have successfully used > > broadcast clients in 4.2.6. > > > > Please see if ntp-dev works for you though - if there i

[ntp:questions] ntpd 4.2.6p5 will not synchronize to broadcast servers

2013-04-24 Thread Gary Johnson
We have a system that uses ntpd to synchronize the system clock. We allow the user to run ntpd in polling mode with a user-specified set of servers, or in broadcast mode, accepting any broadcast NTP messages received. This used to work fine with ntpd 4.2.4p7. Since upgrading to 4.2.6p5, polling