Re: [ntp:questions] ntp-dev conflicts with ntp

2014-08-09 Thread Steve Kostecke
ations you need). In the base of the unpacked source tree (ntp-dev-...): debuild -us -uc cd ../ Then install the local deb with: > dpkg -i ntp-dev_4.2.7p447_amd64.deb -- Steve Kostecke st...@kostecke.net ___ questions mailing list ques

Re: [ntp:questions] nagios

2014-06-13 Thread Steve Kostecke
tall. So the -g option is > not applied. > > As the ntp and ntp-dev packages cannot be installed together > anyway, IMHO it is better to just name the service ntp and the file > /etc/default/ntp. Please contact me off-list. -- Steve

Re: [ntp:questions] nagios

2014-06-10 Thread Steve Kostecke
) ntp-dev automatically does the right thing WRT to default paths for most major OSes or "distributions". > or not (e.g. because they fix bugs that are already fixed in the > development version). Since there is usually a considerable amount of churn in the code base betw

Re: [ntp:questions] Header-tiquette (was: NTP.log interpretation)

2014-04-20 Thread Steve Kostecke
Options" section of your questions mailing list membership configuration page 4. Change the "Get MIME or Plain Text Digests?" option from Plain Text to MIME 5. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the "Submit My Changes" button -- Steve Kos

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP.log interpretation

2014-04-19 Thread Steve Kostecke
will ignore each other when they have the same sys_peer (i.e. when they are "synchronised" to the same source). And the Mitigation Rules do not provide special Peer Classification for Symmetric Active/Passive Mode. http://doc.ntp.org/4.2.6p5/prefer.html#peer or http://doc.ntp.org/dev/pr

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP.log interpretation

2014-04-18 Thread Steve Kostecke
time back on track. 500PPM per day is 43 seconds per day. One could argue that a clock which requires more than 43 seconds per day of correction is fundamentally broken and requires repair rather than calibration. -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/

Re: [ntp:questions] Handle ntp conf modification when ntp is already running

2014-04-08 Thread Steve Kostecke
file for changes. ntpd does not, AFAIK, reparse the configuration file in response to any signals (e.g. SIGHUP). Please contibute a patch with your changes to our BTS at http://bugs.ntp.org > [---=| TOFU protection by t-prot: 31 lines snipped |=---] ... -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Serv

Re: [ntp:questions] Reasons of NTP not to use GPS source

2014-04-08 Thread Steve Kostecke
even 19200 bps can help by >allowing more characters (data) to be transmitted between each 1PPS >output. 4800bps (8N1) transfers 480 bytes (8-bit characters) per second. NMEA 0183 sentences are limited to 79 characters. So a single NMEA sentence is fits easily into the 480cps limit. -- St

Re: [ntp:questions] server and peer lines correct?

2014-04-07 Thread Steve Kostecke
um-1 so > they have maximum diversity of upstream sources. Use of the prefer keyword will prevent the S2s from following the best S1 "truechimer" and push that decision down to the client level. BTW the effects of the prefer keyword are dowumented at: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/

Re: [ntp:questions] Three NTP servers, one strange IP-address in 'refid'

2014-04-02 Thread Steve Kostecke
re. > The IP is gone. The refid is a 32-bit value used for loop detection. Only under IPv4 does the refid _happen_ to be an actual IP address. See slrnljo35n.4v1.koste...@stasis.kostecke.net for more detail. > I consider this a bug. Then feel free to add your voice to http://bugs.ntp.org/278 --

Re: [ntp:questions] Three NTP servers, one strange IP-address in 'refid'

2014-04-02 Thread Steve Kostecke
ee http://bugs.ntp.org/278#c7 for a possible rationale). References: http://bugs.ntp.org/278 (reported 2004-02-03) http://bugs.ntp.org/505 http://lists.ntp.org/pipermail/questions/2005-December/008271.html http://lists.ntp.org/pipermail/ntpwg/2005-June/86.html http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5

Re: [ntp:questions] Indirect GPS time source options

2014-03-13 Thread Steve Kostecke
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Re: [ntp:questions] Indirect GPS time source options

2014-03-13 Thread Steve Kostecke
l for both GPS and CDMA NTP products. Also see: http://www.endruntechnologies.com/cdma.htm -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Help with cross-compiling NTP for the Raspberry Pi requested

2014-03-08 Thread Steve Kostecke
ap_get_bound.3.gz /usr/share/man/man3/cap_set_file.3.gz /usr/share/man/man3/cap_set_flag.3.gz /usr/share/man/man3/cap_dup.3.gz /usr/share/man/man3/cap_clear_flag.3.gz /usr/share/man/man3/capgetp.3.gz /usr/share/man/man3/cap_set_fd.3.gz /usr/share/man/man3/cap_get_fd.3.gz /usr/share/man/man3/cap_siz

Re: [ntp:questions] Help with cross-compiling NTP for the Raspberry Pi requested

2014-03-07 Thread Steve Kostecke
r/sbin/ntpd: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.26, BuildID[sha1]=0x9213f4f18406f5130455f8a8412feac1dedd344e, stripped -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://supp

Re: [ntp:questions] Win7 NTP-dev NMEA User Mode PPS, Freq_Mode Not Working

2014-03-04 Thread Steve Kostecke
zip http://support.ntp.org/people is deprecated and now redirects to http://people.ntp.org -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Meinberg Configuration Help

2014-03-02 Thread Steve Kostecke
rg Windows Installer for NTP, please send your mail to ntp-supp...@meinberg.de." The NTP Distribution HTML documentation is archived at http://doc.ntp.org/. -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ ___ quest

Re: [ntp:questions] error message on startup

2014-03-01 Thread Steve Kostecke
0.0 mask 255.255.0.0 nomodify notrap You're not allowing your ntpd to talk to any remote time servers. Please refer to http://support.ntp.org/Support/AccessRestrictions and follow the decision tree in that topic. -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/

Re: [ntp:questions] ntp symmetric keys - controlkey test is needed

2014-02-21 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2014-02-21, ardi wrote: > I have defined symmetric keys on 2 ntp servers. > How can I test whether controlkey is working? > Is it used for ntpq? http://doc.ntp.org/4.2.6p5/authopt.html explains Symmetric Key Cryptography; and the controlkey, requestkey and trustedkey commands.

Re: [ntp:questions] Remote access to http based service

2014-02-14 Thread Steve Kostecke
xy server). The HTTP Time Protocol (see http://www.vervest.org/fiki/bin/view/HTP/WebHome) is an HTTP equivalent of ntpdate. -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp

Re: [ntp:questions] status information after ntpd -q

2014-02-09 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2014-02-08, William Unruh wrote: > On 2014-02-08, Steve Kostecke wrote: > >> On 2014-02-08, Harlan Stenn wrote: >> >>>> What OS? >> >> See my analysis in slrnlfaa3b.nh4.koste...@stasis.kostecke.net > > Surely the OP should be telling us this,

Re: [ntp:questions] status information after ntpd -q

2014-02-08 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2014-02-08, Harlan Stenn wrote: >> What OS? See my analysis in slrnlfaa3b.nh4.koste...@stasis.kostecke.net > ... and are you cross-compiling? See the OP's build command-line in ca8a8da9-9082-436a-ad61-8ce62e147...@googlegroups.com -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services

Re: [ntp:questions] status information after ntpd -q

2014-02-07 Thread Steve Kostecke
roups.com shows the OP's cross-compile command-line with --target=arm. -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdc and collectd queries timeout

2014-01-24 Thread Steve Kostecke
er to maintain. If you do find some management via ntpdc is needed, you can use "enable mode7" in the ntpd configuration. -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.n

Re: [ntp:questions] generate GQ keys on ntp-server in addition to IFF keys

2014-01-23 Thread Steve Kostecke
ks. I'm not sure why you continually differentiate between "ntp-server" and "ntp-client" because ntpd is both. The only difference in operation between the two is that in one case the ntpd is answering polls from other ntpds (or ntpdate, or sntp). -- Steve Ko

Re: [ntp:questions] simple nt.conf cases for ntp-client

2014-01-23 Thread Steve Kostecke
ains some good discussion which may be pertinent to understanding how NTP finds this majority. -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] using IFF, GQ, MV keys for authentication at the same time

2014-01-22 Thread Steve Kostecke
it is necessary to change the client key at relatively frequent intervals." "The MV scheme is intended for the most challenging scenarios where it is neccesary to protect against both server and client masquerade." More at the above URLs and: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/database/r

Re: [ntp:questions] better rate limiting against amplification attacks?

2014-01-16 Thread Steve Kostecke
http://www.pool.ntp.org/en/use.html > > Vendors should be careful with the pool command. I use the ntp-dev pool command here and see 8 remote time servers in my peers billboard. If this is considered to be too many then we should fix ntpd rather than depreccating a useful configration opt

Re: [ntp:questions] better rate limiting against amplification attacks?

2014-01-16 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2014-01-16, David Lord wrote: > Steve Kostecke wrote: > > [---=| Quote block shrinked by t-prot: 25 lines snipped |=---] >> [snip: sample defaults] > I have "restrict -4 limited kod nomodify notrap nopeer noquery" > > I've not checked most recent docs

Re: [ntp:questions] better rate limiting against amplification attacks?

2014-01-16 Thread Steve Kostecke
condary use case. But the defaults listed above would also enable that usage. > This notion of good behavior under minimal config seems > really obvious to me, yet there is a huge resistance to it, with the > notion that every end user should inve

Re: [ntp:questions] better rate limiting against amplification attacks?

2014-01-15 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2014-01-15, Rob wrote: > Steve Kostecke wrote: > >> The same could be said about the NTP Reference Implementation >> Developers; they're busy, too. > > The difference is that while there is only one developers team, there > are many distributors that each hav

Re: [ntp:questions] better rate limiting against amplification attacks?

2014-01-15 Thread Steve Kostecke
arious ntpd use cases (e.g. server, leaf-node pool client, etc.) is encouraged to do so. -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] better rate limiting against amplification attacks?

2014-01-15 Thread Steve Kostecke
ndors/aggregators/distributors had a sane starting point for the customization efforts. -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] better rate limiting against amplification attacks?

2014-01-15 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2014-01-15, Rob wrote: > William Unruh wrote: > >> On 2014-01-15, Steve Kostecke wrote: >> >>> On 2014-01-15, David Woolley wrote: >>> >>>> CERT have just issued an alert about the monlist attack: >>>><https://www.us-cert.gov/n

Re: [ntp:questions] better rate limiting against amplification attacks?

2014-01-15 Thread Steve Kostecke
ict. Upgrade _or_ use noquery _or_ disable monitor Information at http://support.ntp.org/security -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] better rate limiting against DDoS amplification attacks?

2014-01-09 Thread Steve Kostecke
lier > versions on the NTP support site where it can be easily found, and > link to it here? Future discussions could then be truncated by > providing that link. I've attempted to intiate some discussion about this in another forum and am still waiting for replies. -- Steve Kost

Re: [ntp:questions] enable pps not working from ntp.conf

2014-01-09 Thread Steve Kostecke
ing. I use slrn, a text mode news-reader: http://www.slrn.org In this thread I found: User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (Linux) X-Mailer: MH-E 7.4.2; nmh 1.5; XEmacs 21.4 (patch 22) -- Ste

Re: [ntp:questions] PPS signal from Garmin GPS 18x LVC

2014-01-03 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2014-01-03, David Taylor wrote: > On 03/01/2014 10:36, Ralph Aichinger wrote: >> Steve Kostecke wrote: >>> In my experience the NMEA driver displays the '*' talley-code even when >>> PPS is in use. >> >> Mine does not: >> >>

Re: [ntp:questions] PPS signal from Garmin GPS 18x LVC

2013-12-29 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2013-12-29, Adrian P wrote: > On 30 December 2013 00:13, Steve Kostecke wrote: > >> In my experience the NMEA driver displays the '*' talley-code even >> when PPS is in use. > > Are you sure of that? The was the case with the rather old version I ran on

Re: [ntp:questions] PPS signal from Garmin GPS 18x LVC

2013-12-29 Thread Steve Kostecke
ntpq ... -pn [snip] > remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter >= > *127.127.20.0 .PPS. 0 l 15 16 377 0.000 14.437 23.063 > root@debian:~# The offset and jitter shown above suggest to me that the

Re: [ntp:questions] better rate limiting against amplification attacks?

2013-12-28 Thread Steve Kostecke
tream > communication. This is a case of not being able to see the forest for the trees. -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] better rate limiting against amplification attacks?

2013-12-28 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2013-12-28, Greg Troxel wrote: > Steve Kostecke writes: > >> On 2013-12-27, detha wrote: >> >>> A first step would be to have a default configuration where any >>> functionality that can be used for reflection attacks with more than a say >>> 2

Re: [ntp:questions] better rate limiting against amplification attacks?

2013-12-27 Thread Steve Kostecke
TP Reference Implementation has no default use case. So there is no "baked-in" sensible default configuration. Some view this as a feature. -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ ___ questions mailing list questi

Re: [ntp:questions] Public ntp-server and reflection-attacks

2013-12-23 Thread Steve Kostecke
f to establish a bidirectional association between two ntpds (i.e. an assocation where both nodes poll the other node for the time). 'nopeer' blocks these associations. By way of comparision ... The "server" configuration directive is used to establish a unidirectional assoc

Re: [ntp:questions] Bounce attack via pool server

2013-12-23 Thread Steve Kostecke
t restrictions. The current NTP development release includes some anti spoofing technology and does not require the use of 'noquery'. BTW: NTP Community Supported Documentation is located at http://support.ntp.org/support -- Steve Kostecke

Re: [ntp:questions] Silly question.

2013-12-16 Thread Steve Kostecke
ic.php?t=29172 discusses installing FreeBSD 9 source. -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP to multiple networks via one interface.

2013-12-16 Thread Steve Kostecke
gt; double spaced). > > I use slrn as my news reader. The raw (i.e. original) version of the message in question (0416fa11-d631-42c3-82e1-8ddfb016d...@googlegroups.com) may be viewed at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/comp.protocols.time.ntp/iJcX9XlnuTQ/40OP-fgpAQIJ It clearly shows t

Re: [ntp:questions] Silly question.

2013-12-16 Thread Steve Kostecke
n't wish to add those directories to your search path then use a shell alias so that 'ntpq' is /usr/local/bin/ntpq. Set it in the same places where you updated the PATH. -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/

Re: [ntp:questions] Silly question.

2013-12-16 Thread Steve Kostecke
shell searches for executables in the directories specified by your PATH. /usr/local/bin needs to appear in your PATH before /usr/bin if you want the "ports" versions of commands to override the "system" commands. Or set up a shell alias. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP not syncing

2013-11-25 Thread Steve Kostecke
ontains the configuration directive to disable authenticate or 3. the non-trivial symmetric key configuration is correctly completed _and_ the remote user possesses the correct authentication credentials -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ __

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP not syncing

2013-11-24 Thread Steve Kostecke
they're used with a default restriction. 'restrict default ...' applies to all addresses/netblocks which don't have an explicit restrict line. -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Public ntp-server and reflection-attacks

2013-11-21 Thread Steve Kostecke
upported documentation. It is at http://support.ntp.org/Support/AccessRestrictions -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

[ntp:questions] False sender addresses

2013-11-21 Thread Steve Kostecke
sting-host="97d561cb9e1eed1630fcfd3dd65418a6"; logging-data="7864"; mail-complaints-to="ab...@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/DgdtzFyqjVgYuudyBjPMPKQgj+ns4L68=" Anyone who wishes to contact this poster might find the

Re: [ntp:questions] Unexpected executable locations from "sudo make install" on RPi Linux

2013-11-15 Thread Steve Kostecke
ide of the OS package management system. You may find the articles at http://www.osnews.com/story/25556/Understanding_the_bin_sbin_usr_bin_usr_sbin_Split and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3519952 illuminating. All of the is, BTW, trivial to dig up with your favorite search engine ...

Re: [ntp:questions] Strange refid

2013-11-12 Thread Steve Kostecke
> 204.109.63.243 .M-F.\.. 16 u 86 512 376 58.947 -201.11 138.426 The NTP Pool information page for this server is: http://www.pool.ntp.org/scores/204.109.63.243 -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ ___ questions

Re: [ntp:questions] questions] WinNT Port Performance Counter Stability and Drift

2013-11-10 Thread Steve Kostecke
ast on my feed from Eternal-September. An article from Charles made it to the Google Groups mirror of c.p.t.n: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/comp.protocols.time.ntp/VLNotnd_nms/vBCbcxQkp3MJ Looks like a problem with your free news ser

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP not syncing

2013-11-10 Thread Steve Kostecke
--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jul 18 07:48 available_clocksource -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Nov 9 14:28 current_clocksource # cat available_clocksource tsc hpet acpi_pm # cat current_clocksource tsc # echo hpet > current_clocksource # cat current_clocksource hpet -- Steve Kostecke NT

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP not syncing

2013-11-04 Thread Steve Kostecke
of action is to bite the bullet and determine a sane tick value. In virtually all cases this will allow ntpd to control your clock. -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP not syncing

2013-11-04 Thread Steve Kostecke
al. Likely it's >> OS-dependant, but for Windows I documented the method here: >> >>http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/setup.html#broken-clock There is information about fixing this issue in the NTP Community Supported Documentation at https://support.ntp.org/bin/view/

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP clients

2013-10-30 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2013-10-30, David Lord wrote: > Steve Kostecke wrote: > >> ntpq prior to 4.2.7p22 does not support "mrulist" ... > > so 4.2.7p377 I've used since August is broken? > > or do I need to add some options to enable that command? I'm not aware of an

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP clients

2013-10-29 Thread Steve Kostecke
0 . 4 4 1121 123 67.212.118.60 1023 10260 . 4 4 1112 123 74.120.8.2 You have new mail in /var/mail/me me@home:/tmp$ ntpq -v /usr/bin/ntpq: illegal option -- v ntpq - standard NTP query program - Ver. 4.2.7p393 Usage: ntpq [ - [] | --[{=| }] ]... [ host ...] Try 'n

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP clients

2013-10-26 Thread Steve Kostecke
s/ntp/html/ is updated for the current development release series and may include documentation about features not present in older production releases. A snapshot of the Miscellaneous Options documentation as shipped with the current stable release is archived at http://doc.ntp.org/4.2.6p5/m

Re: [ntp:questions] change ntp source port

2013-10-21 Thread Steve Kostecke
method, to run ntpdate periodically. If you want your clock to be continuously disciplined (i.e. adjusted towards the correct time) then you need to run ntpd. -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ ___ questions maili

Re: [ntp:questions] Raspberry Pi stratum-1 NTP server without soldering....

2013-10-21 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2013-10-21, David Taylor wrote: >http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/Raspberry-Pi-NTP.html#no-soldering This information ought to be added to the NTP Community Supported Documentation at http://support.ntp.org/support -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.

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

2013-10-14 Thread Steve Kostecke
this data store. A real world example of the risks of relying on a GUI. -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

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

2013-10-12 Thread Steve Kostecke
he freebsd distro has no idea > what he is doing. This is not a FreeBSD issue. FreeNAS provide a GUI for handling the appliance configuration. The underlying configuration files are automatically (re-)generated after an edit and at boot time. -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Proje

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

2013-10-12 Thread Steve Kostecke
27;m really not sure why there is an ntp.conf at all in /conf/base/etc, as it's ignored." -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] which servers should be peers?

2013-09-19 Thread Steve Kostecke
hich nominally operate at the same stratum (i.e. all your S2s or all your S1s). These groups should not cross strata. -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://

Re: [ntp:questions] which servers should be peers?

2013-09-18 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2013-09-18, David Taylor wrote: > On 18/09/2013 15:24, Steve Kostecke wrote: >> On 2013-09-18, David Taylor wrote: >> >>> On 18/09/2013 14:27, Steve Kostecke wrote: >>> >>>> On 2013-09-18, Charles Elliott wrote: >>> >>> [] >

Re: [ntp:questions] which servers should be peers?

2013-09-18 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2013-09-18, David Taylor wrote: > On 18/09/2013 14:27, Steve Kostecke wrote: > >> On 2013-09-18, Charles Elliott wrote: > > [] > > Charles's post hasn't (yet) appeared on USENET. Perhaps the gateway is > broken, or very, very slow? https

Re: [ntp:questions] which servers should be peers?

2013-09-18 Thread Steve Kostecke
; is _not_ considered abusive because it only multiplies the initial poll when a time server becomes reachable. 'burst' _is_ considered abusive because it multiplies (i.e. causes a burst at) each poll. > and minpoll 4 (16 secs) maxpoll 5 (32 secs). -- Steve Kost

Re: [ntp:questions] GPS/PPS and "enable calibrate"

2013-09-07 Thread Steve Kostecke
cause, until one understands this saw tooth pattern > it appears like no time2 adjustment works for any length of time, > hence the attempt to sneak up on it. I'm not sure where you're going with this attempt to calculate the perfect time2 value.

Re: [ntp:questions] NTPD silently not tracking

2013-09-01 Thread Steve Kostecke
roficient in such tasks. We live in an age where information is ubibiquitous. A motivated person should have no difficulty locating documentation describing the process of compiling software as "raw" source code or through their Operating System software/package management infrastructu

Re: [ntp:questions] NTPD silently not tracking

2013-08-30 Thread Steve Kostecke
h packages the current ntp-dev snapshot: http://packages.ntp.org/debian/ -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] PPS versus serial offset

2013-08-28 Thread Steve Kostecke
which marks the seconds 2. NMEA sentences which label the seconds The PPS signal is emitted at the beginning of each second and is non-preemptable. The NMEA sentences are emitted when the GPS receiver is not busy with other tasks and can occur at any time during the relevant second. -- Ste

Re: [ntp:questions] PPS versus serial offset

2013-08-28 Thread Steve Kostecke
ich displays the 11ms jump, is labled "stratum 1". It is very likely the system offset. -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] refid question

2013-08-24 Thread Steve Kostecke
et has been steadily increasing. > > Any guidance to what this means appreciated. It may be worth contracting the appliance manufacturer. -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ ___ questions mailing list qu

Re: [ntp:questions] selection between ntp server and reference clock

2013-08-19 Thread Steve Kostecke
il 4 data samples are collected. -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Order of servers in ntp.conf

2013-08-15 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2013-08-15, unruh wrote: > On 2013-08-15, Steve Kostecke wrote: > [---=| Quote block shrinked by t-prot: 42 lines snipped |=---] > >> The mitigation algorithm proceeds in three steps in turn. >> >> 1. If there are no survivors, the modem driver becomes the only

Re: [ntp:questions] Order of servers in ntp.conf

2013-08-15 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2013-08-15, unruh wrote: > On 2013-08-14, Steve Kostecke wrote: > >> The time server specified in each of those lines is the one which is >> currently selected as the "sys_peer". > > But as I understand it, it is simply one of the systems which is >

Re: [ntp:questions] Order of servers in ntp.conf

2013-08-14 Thread Steve Kostecke
it has done all of the calculations, it picks > one of the servers in the accepted bunch of servers and uses it as a > proxy for all of them. Ie, the above is shorthand for > synchronized to a pool of servers which includes 38.101.77.21 The time server specified in each of those lines is

Re: [ntp:questions] DNS resolution on ntpd

2013-08-05 Thread Steve Kostecke
org HTH, -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Clock selection in Orphan Mode

2013-07-26 Thread Steve Kostecke
core server. Each orphan child chooses the orphan parent as the root server with the smallest metric. -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] how to use restrict to refuse the clients which have no shared-keys

2013-07-25 Thread Steve Kostecke
another look at http://doc.ntp.org/4.2.4/accopt.html and look for a restrict flag which applies to authenticated packets. -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http:

Re: [ntp:questions] What should the poll be for the shared memory driver (type 28)?

2013-06-17 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2013-06-17, David Taylor wrote: > On 17/06/2013 17:36, Steve Kostecke wrote: [] > >> grepping the source tree is very informative... [snip: relevant quotes from the NTP Reference Implementation source] > Thanks, Steve. My knowledge of the source tree is even more limited >

Re: [ntp:questions] What should the poll be for the shared memory driver (type 28)?

2013-06-17 Thread Steve Kostecke
s clamped * not less than NTP_MINPOLL without complaint. Finally, * minpoll is clamped not greater than maxpoll. */ And in ./include/ntp.h we find: :#define NTP_MINPOLL 3 /* log2 min poll interval (8 s) */ -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Projec

Re: [ntp:questions] two machines syncing to the same master - hardware issues?

2013-05-31 Thread Steve Kostecke
over the place. That's misleading. > Is there any way to determine if the ntp servers are using GPS or not? Query them with ntpq. http://doc.ntp.org/4.2.4/ntpq.html But keep in mind that there other factors besides the time source at play here. -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services

Re: [ntp:questions] two machines syncing to the same master - hardware issues?

2013-05-31 Thread Steve Kostecke
data? > > There is a mass of documentation with most of ntpd releases. Try > The HTML documentation for NTP-4.2.4 is archived at http://doc.ntp.org/4.2.4 Your OS should provide the official NTP HTML documenation (either as a part of their NT

Re: [ntp:questions] Offset is always increasing

2013-05-22 Thread Steve Kostecke
Wiki since 2005: https://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Support/KnownHardwareIssues#Section_9.1.6. -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Tighter regulation?

2013-05-21 Thread Steve Kostecke
esented at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/discipline.html -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Meinberg NTP client continuously resync to server

2013-05-18 Thread Steve Kostecke
p.org/4.2.4/ -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] ntp & system without a rtc

2013-05-10 Thread Steve Kostecke
the device has 5V power available. No external crystal or tuning capacitors are required. -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP with GPS and RTC

2013-04-26 Thread Steve Kostecke
. And the ambient conditions and system load match that which existed when the correction was determined. -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] help

2013-03-05 Thread Steve Kostecke
t;sudo ntpd",and >succeeded. 'sudo ntpd' starts the NTP daemon (assuming that it in your search path). The netstat output you included in your original article shows that ntpd was running. -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ _

Re: [ntp:questions] PPS only configuration

2013-02-18 Thread Steve Kostecke
to him. Not putting in line > breaks is NOT primarily a news posting problem. It is a user problem. According to the headers in your article(s) you are using the slrn newsreader. So all you have to do to make long lines of text readable is touch the 'w' key while you're reading the

Re: [ntp:questions] Does this look sane, is PPS working?

2013-02-12 Thread Steve Kostecke
01 > > I would expect to see a PPS line if you have PPS up and working > correctly, The 'o' tally code at the beginning of the GPS_NMEA line is telling you that your GPS is the PPS peer. Plus the offset and jitter are appropriate for a PPS ref-clock. The tally codes are listed a

Re: [ntp:questions] Updating the leapseconds file -- how to signal ntpd

2013-01-27 Thread Steve Kostecke
ains why. Stable releases have an even Minor Release number Development releases have an odd Minor Release number The curent release numbering scheme syntax is Protocol_Version.Major_Version.Minor_Version[Release_Tags] -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Projec

Re: [ntp:questions] p351 fails to build on MSVC++2008EE

2013-01-25 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2013-01-25, Mischanko, Edward T wrote: > Who updates autogen and when is it expected? The AutoGen "home-page" is: http://www.gnu.org/software/autogen/ -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/

Re: [ntp:questions] Loopstats jitter field mostly zero?

2013-01-11 Thread Steve Kostecke
wants > that I just don't grok. As far as TestFloat it requires SoftFloat > which has fallen off the interwebs. If you have another test you > would like me to try let me know. Did you try http://www.jhauser.us/arithmetic/SoftFloat.html ? -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public S

Re: [ntp:questions] Loopstats jitter field mostly zero?

2013-01-11 Thread Steve Kostecke
required to test the hardware FPU." -- Steve Kostecke NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

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