Re: [ntp:questions] questions Digest, Vol 66, Issue 7

2010-04-12 Thread Todd Glassey
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Re: [ntp:questions] Anyone ever consider running NTP in an nVidia GPU core?

2009-12-01 Thread Todd Glassey
David Mills wrote: > Todd, > > Merrill Lynch manages my investment portfolio, IRAs and trusts. While > Greg Johns is the headman, I don't think your paths will cross. Why's that? > > Dave > > Todd Glassey wrote: > >> David Mills wrote: >> >&g

Re: [ntp:questions] Anyone ever consider running NTP in an nVidia GPU core?

2009-12-01 Thread Todd Glassey
there. I was working with Jack Cavenaugh in compliance and the managing partner for silicon valley, pat williams in taking secured and audited time into their compliance model. Todd > > Dave > > Todd Glassey wrote: > >> David - I was just looking at a real-time control pr

Re: [ntp:questions] Anyone ever consider running NTP in an nVidia GPU core?

2009-12-01 Thread Todd Glassey
Todd Glassey wrote: > David - I was just looking at a real-time control process a friend had > implemented for a controller which is handling some very fast nuclear > events and parts of the sensor code is actually running in an nVidia GPU > core and it hit me, what a neat timi

[ntp:questions] Anyone ever consider running NTP in an nVidia GPU core?

2009-12-01 Thread Todd Glassey
David - I was just looking at a real-time control process a friend had implemented for a controller which is handling some very fast nuclear events and parts of the sensor code is actually running in an nVidia GPU core and it hit me, what a neat timing server it would make. I bring this up beca

Re: [ntp:questions] Problem with system clock refresh

2009-11-28 Thread Todd Glassey
E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists wrote: > Unruh wrote: > >> JuanFran writes: >> >>> Hi! My system should be accurate to within approximately >>> 10 milliseconds . >>> Is there a need to be able to say five years from now, prove that the time data in the

Re: [ntp:questions] Monitor of NTP service

2009-11-25 Thread Todd Glassey
aluciani wrote: > Hello Folks. > > I have several AIX Unix 5.2 serves that point to a Cisco router as the > NTP time source. > I would say thats a pretty insecure idea... > Is there any way I could monitor the time source and against the > servers to ensure that they are in sync? > You coul

Re: [ntp:questions] Keeping NTP Honest Redux

2009-11-10 Thread Todd Glassey
Unruh wrote: > Evandro Menezes writes: > > >> On Nov 9, 9:21=A0am, "David J Taylor" > bit.nor-this.co.uk.invalid> wrote: >> >>> Here's the offset: >>> =A0http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/2009-11-07-08-09-Narvik_offset-tod.png >>> >>> and here's the rate: >>> =A0http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/2009-

Re: [ntp:questions] Fudge time offset on client/peer?

2009-11-08 Thread Todd Glassey
David Mills wrote: > Danny, > > Sure you can in a couple of lines of code. However, where are you going > to put the result? The proto_config() call has a fixed number of fields > all tied up with data structures used for name resolution and for remote > configuration. The original plan, now onl

Re: [ntp:questions] Keeping NTP Honest Redux

2009-11-08 Thread Todd Glassey
David J Taylor wrote: > "Hal Murray" <> wrote in message > news:v72dnrrfbauf8wvxnz2dnuvz_t5i4...@megapath.net... > >>> NTPD is at its best from about 2300 local time to 0700 local time. The >>> net quiets down and NTP packets travel with minimal and highly >>> predictable delays. >>> >>

Re: [ntp:questions] Did we ever get NTP running under Cygwin32

2009-11-08 Thread Todd Glassey
Danny Mayer wrote: > Todd Glassey wrote: > >> Dave Hart wrote: >> >>> Undoubtedly there would many minor kinks to work out as well. I know >>> of another cygwin-based program which on Windows Vista tends to fail >>> before starting main()

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP absolute accuracy?

2009-11-04 Thread Todd Glassey
RedGrittyBrick wrote: > Unruh wrote: > >> "David J Taylor" >> writes: >> >> >>> At source, it's recently been within about 10 microseconds: >>> >> Sorry, at 10usec, the distance away of the transmitter must be less than 3 >> km. >> > > At *source*, the distance to the transmi

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP absolute accuracy?

2009-11-04 Thread Todd Glassey
David J Taylor wrote: > "David J Taylor" > wrote in > message news:%xqgm.126$ym4...@text.news.virginmedia.com... > >> "Unruh" <> wrote in message news:34jgm.50898$ph1.36...@edtnps82... >> [] >> >>> Note that chrony will give you a factor of 2 or three improvement over >>> ntp in the err

Re: [ntp:questions] Did we ever get NTP running under Cygwin32

2009-11-04 Thread Todd Glassey
Dave Hart wrote: > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:09 PM, todd glassey wrote: > >> As I remember Sven was working on this - did we ever get it completed and if >> so where is the documentation on it? >> > > I don't believe so. There is very little evidence i

[ntp:questions] Did we ever get NTP running under Cygwin32

2009-11-03 Thread todd glassey - CISM CIFI
As I remember Sven was working on this - did we ever get it completed and if so where is the documentation on it? Todd Glassey ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Autokey users - please read

2009-09-12 Thread Todd Glassey
David Mills wrote: > Dave, > > Better do this quickly, cleanly and with minimum wiggle room. Otherwise, > somebody who doesn't know anything will call it a security flaw, call > the CERT and create an Incident. You mean like 2009-USCERTv33I7IQA... Todd > This has happened before when somebody

Re: [ntp:questions] Autokey users - please read

2009-09-12 Thread Todd Glassey
Dave Hart wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Ryan Malayter wrote: > >> I don't use autokey in production, but I would also suggest that if >> the issue causes the reference implementation to violate RFCs and also >> creates a security issue with key shortening, it should be fixed >> witho

Re: [ntp:questions] Autokey users - please read

2009-09-12 Thread Todd Glassey
27;fix' NTP like this it will be removed from the MANDATORY SW components of a number of standards because it will break the operations of existing systems. Todd Glassey > > > > > No virus found in this

Re: [ntp:questions] lists.ntp.org uses an invalid security certificate....

2009-09-08 Thread Todd Glassey
When visiting that site in Firefox, but not in Internet Explorer, I get the warning: lists.ntp.org:443 uses an invalid security certificate. "The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is unknown." Perhaps my Firefox needs something

Re: [ntp:questions] TSC, default precision, FreeBSD

2009-09-08 Thread Todd Glassey
David Mills wrote: > Dave > > I lobbied hard for NIST and USNO to use FreeBSD They do - they are Dell boxes running FreeBSD - just not with NTP.ORG's code base on them. > rather than Linux and a > modern NTP release; USNO does, but NIST does not due to internal inertia > and the fear to change

Re: [ntp:questions] Need suggestion on compensating clock drift on Xen based VPS

2009-08-25 Thread Todd Glassey
ee also: > http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Support/VMWareNTP > > The VMware whitepaper listed there goes deep into the problem of > providing good time to guest operating systems. > Only someone who was trying to sell VM systems wo

Re: [ntp:questions] Running ntpd in a Windows domain

2009-08-18 Thread Todd Glassey
Dave Hart wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Martin > Burnicki wrote: > >> AFAICS this means recent w32time clients in a Windows domain would never >> accept reply packets from the PDC if ntpd instead of w32time is running on >> the PDC, even if either of the workarounds mentioned above

Re: [ntp:questions] New Version of NTP Installer for Windows from Meinberg

2009-08-14 Thread Todd Glassey
phil wrote: > "Ulrich Windl" wrote in message > news:87tz0cxf5e@pc9454.klinik.uni-regensburg.de... > >> Heiko Gerstung writes: >> >> >>> Hi Clock Addictives, >>> >>> following the security update of NTP we built a new version of our NTP >>> Installer for Windows which now installs NT

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP stops when client address changes?

2009-08-06 Thread Todd Glassey
>> Groetjes, >> Maarten Wiltink >> The real question is whether the client address is set by DHCP and in those cases - with pre-established Windows type runtime services, whether the connection instance which was established on one IP address stays bonded to the old address wh

Re: [ntp:questions] Local (own site) NTP servers.

2009-07-23 Thread Todd Glassey
ng NTP but I do have a version of Chrony running in my lab with really impressive results on a mach64 kernel. Todd Glassey > >> I presume you mean QRM (Man made) as oposed to QRN (Natural) >> interference from all the digital kit. Slip of finger on keys no >> doubt. >>

Re: [ntp:questions] Local (own site) NTP servers.

2009-07-23 Thread Todd Glassey
tglassey wrote: > G8KBV wrote: >> Wonder if this will get posed, or returned to me.. >> >> Hi... >> >> Been lurking for a while. >> >> Also, been messing about trying to get a local (to me) GPS >> Disciplined NTP server working, based on David Taylor's work >> with FreeBSD, > Yes this is a good pl

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpd questions - FreeBSD 5.5

2009-07-20 Thread Todd Glassey
ns in many 1G networks and in all of the faster (10G) Ethernet deployments I have tested unless its specifically disabled. > Run ntpd continuously and see if that solves your problem. > > Which opens a huge security problem - you should ONLY run NTPd on s

Re: [ntp:questions] Is there any way to configure one Server as NTP Stratum1 with its own clock (the system clock)?

2009-07-20 Thread Todd Glassey
Danny Mayer wrote: > Miguel Angel Fernández wrote: > >> Hello everybody >> >> >> >> Can anybody help me, please? >> >> Is there any way to configure one Server (Debian Linux) as NTP Stratum1 with >> its own clock (the system clock)? >> yes >> The reason for this question is that we need t

Re: [ntp:questions] Testing Sync Across Several Systems

2009-07-20 Thread Todd Glassey
T wrote: > Greetings: > > We have about 50 Linux/Solaris/Windows boxes running ntpd at several > different sites. Some of the systems from time to time go out of sync. > My question is there a way to test ntpd machines are all in sync with > the master server? > Sure run a peering based log capt

Re: [ntp:questions] Meinberg NTP Software--Time Accuracy

2009-07-12 Thread Todd Glassey CISM CIFI
Danny Mayer wrote: > tglassey wrote: > >> Danny Mayer wrote: >> >> By geography, just like the zones that were mentioned in the post >> above. >> However, they are more fine-grained, especially when compared with >> large zones like us or eu. >> >> >

Re: [ntp:questions] Meinberg NTP Software--Time Accuracy

2009-07-12 Thread Todd Glassey CISM CIFI
ly in the EU where there are specific requirements for the operation of a time-stamping service of *** any *** type as a public offering, meaning NTP operators would be liable. And by the way - there may be criminal penalties for intentionally violating this as well in all of the EU member na

Re: [ntp:questions] Meinberg NTP Software--Time Accuracy

2009-07-12 Thread Todd Glassey CISM CIFI
Rob wrote: > Rick Jones wrote: > >> Rob wrote: >> >>> This is no longer required. You can just use pool.ntp.org or >>> 0.pool.ntp.org and the DNS servers for the pool will automatically >>> determine which servers are closest to you. >>> >> Is that by geography, hop count or ICMP

Re: [ntp:questions] Can or should the NTP protocol eventually serve timezone data?

2009-07-12 Thread Todd Glassey CISM CIFI
Richard B. Gilbert wrote: > Rod Dorman wrote: > >> In article , >> Richard B. Gilbert wrote: >> >>> ... >>> Kludging local timezone conversions into the NTP protocol somehow would >>> be a nightmare if you could persuade anyone to do it! 24 or more >>> timezones ... >>> >> Don'

Re: [ntp:questions] Can or should the NTP protocol eventually serve timezone data?

2009-06-17 Thread Todd Glassey CISM CIFI
established, > maybe it could be expanded to include timezone data? > I submitted this as a discovery protocol addition about 5 years ago and it was squashed but I think the NEA people picked up some of this. FWIW there should probably be something in DHCP and DNSSEC as well for

Re: [ntp:questions] .1 Microsecond Synchronization

2009-06-17 Thread Todd Glassey CISM CIFI
Patrick Klos wrote: > In article <2pmdnygdgrswzbrxnz2dnuvz_uidn...@giganews.com>, > ScottyG wrote: > >> Hello. >> >> The company I am working for needs to be able to record timestamps in a >> trading >> system logs down to a .1 microsecond accuracy. >> >> We will have servers located in Lond

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdate

2009-06-17 Thread Todd Glassey CISM CIFI
Danny Mayer wrote: > Todd Glassey CISM CIFI wrote: > >> Danny Mayer wrote: >> >>> tglassey wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Danny Mayer wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Scott Haneda wrote: >&

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdate

2009-06-17 Thread Todd Glassey CISM CIFI
Danny Mayer wrote: > tglassey wrote: > >> Danny Mayer wrote: >> >>> Scott Haneda wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On Jun 15, 2009, at 8:59 AM, Todd Glassey CISM CIFI wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdate

2009-06-17 Thread Todd Glassey CISM CIFI
Scott Haneda wrote: > On Jun 15, 2009, at 8:59 AM, Todd Glassey CISM CIFI wrote: > >>> You should be running ntpd as a daemon. That will keep the clock in >>> synch and you never have to touch it. >> >> Which creates an audit issue and security profile which alw

Re: [ntp:questions] ntpdate

2009-06-17 Thread Todd Glassey CISM CIFI
s my command: >> /usr/sbin/ntpdate -u >> >> > > Why are you bothering to do this when you can just run ntpd as a daemon > which will keep your clock perfectly synchronized. > As noted before NTPd is not the answer for everyone. Todd Glassey > >&

Re: [ntp:questions] Nontrivial time adjustments

2009-06-05 Thread Todd Glassey CISM CIFI
he biggest issue was live content from remote sites which would take precedence in the larger issue. If you want to take this offline then contact me directly Todd Glassey > > > With best regards, > Alexey Ivanov > -

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP as HA-cluster service

2009-06-05 Thread Todd Glassey CISM CIFI
eal time based processes if you want them to work in a proper manner. Todd Glassey > >> ask because currently I don't have a DRBD or network filesystem for >> NTP, I have it configured identically on each node and the service >> just runs on one of the nodes at at tim

[ntp:questions] New NIST Time Server online in Chicago...

2009-05-17 Thread Todd Glassey CISM CIFI
Folks - The new Chicago NIST time server is finally up and operational. The IP address is 208.66.175.36 and its name is NIST1-CHI.USTiming.ORG. Normal NIST-server use rules... Enjoy! Todd Glassey ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org

Re: [ntp:questions] Setting the COM port for the NMEA driver

2009-05-11 Thread Todd Glassey CISM CIFI
Dave Hart wrote: >> Does NTP even allow COM4? >> > > I don't think so. The unit numbers are limited to 0-3, I believe, but > I don't have any concept of why. Windows never has a COM0:, so > arguably it was a poor choice to map unit number to com port number > without adding 1, but it's far t

Re: [ntp:questions] GPS-UTC Leap Corrections

2009-05-07 Thread Todd Glassey CISM CIFI
p the issues with L1 GPS being so easily spoofed from a trust-anchor standpoint L1 is almost worthless - if you need to prove the source of the time then you need an AutoKEY based relationship with some reliable provider. Todd Glassey > > > --

Re: [ntp:questions] Gretchen - in regard to CertifiedTime it never died...

2009-05-07 Thread Todd Glassey CISM CIFI
s for Any Purpose" limitations is silly IMHO. Todd . > > /gdBaxter > > > > > > > On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Danny Mayer <mailto:ma...@ntp.org>> wrote: > Todd Glassey CISM CIFI wrote: > > Danny Maye

Re: [ntp:questions] Gretchen - in regard to CertifiedTime it never died...

2009-05-07 Thread Todd Glassey CISM CIFI
Danny Mayer wrote: > Todd Glassey CISM CIFI wrote: > >> Gretchen Baxter wrote: >> >>> thanx! >>> >>> in that case, this is good news for everyone in the timing community. >>> >> We think so - and as CertifiedTime's ori

Re: [ntp:questions] How bad is USB?

2009-05-01 Thread Todd Glassey CISM CIFI
Richard B. Gilbert wrote: > David J Taylor wrote: > >> Garrett Wollman wrote: >> >>> In article , >>> Richard B. Gilbert wrote: >>> >>> USB is nearly useless for NTP! USB has latencies sufficiently large and variable to render it unsuitable for use with NTP.

Re: [ntp:questions] Gretchen - in regard to CertifiedTime it never died...

2009-05-01 Thread Todd Glassey CISM CIFI
Internet poses. > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Todd Glassey CISM CIFI > mailto:tglas...@earthlink.net>> wrote: > > Gretchen Baxter wrote: > > thanx! > > in that case, this is good news for everyone in the timing > community. &

Re: [ntp:questions] Can the line audio out of HF radio be used to sync ntp. Trying to get a cheap ($) radio method.

2009-05-01 Thread Todd Glassey CISM CIFI
Richard B. Gilbert wrote: > David J Taylor wrote: > >> Unruh wrote: >> >>> Nathaniel Homier writes: >>> >>> Hello. I would like to know if one can use the line audio out of any old portable shortwave radio tuned to a time signal and fed via a line a

Re: [ntp:questions] Gretchen - in regard to CertifiedTime it never died...

2009-05-01 Thread Todd Glassey CISM CIFI
ation - only for moving time around). 3) A formal characterization and operations guidelines so the commercial industry don't get bad advice on the systems and processes needed to generate that court-admissible evidence. Todd Glassey > > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Todd

[ntp:questions] Gretchen - in regard to CertifiedTime it never died...

2009-04-29 Thread Todd Glassey CISM CIFI
that the entity is alive and well - so just change the name If you want to talk more about what happend to CertifiedTime or why, we should take this offline. Todd Glassey CISM CIFI tglas...@certichron.com ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.nt