Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 09:44:59 -0600 From: Karl Denninger <karl@Denninger.Net> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-) Message-ID: <20000102094459.B22738@Denninger.Net> In-Reply-To: <50519.946812158@critter.freebsd.dk>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 12:22:38PM %2B0100 References: <20000101194318.B17585@Denninger.Net> <50519.946812158@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 12:22:38PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20000101194318.B17585@Denninger.Net>, Karl Denninger writes:
>
> >> >Well... that won't help the 20 or so boxes here doing this all the
> >> >time:
> >> >Jan 1 11:26:46 gndrsh xntpd[133]: time reset (step) -0.217546 s
> >> >Jan 1 11:32:06 gndrsh xntpd[133]: time reset (step) 0.207523 s
> >>
> >> (-0.217546 - 0.207523) / (14 + 5 * 60 + 6) = -.001328340
> >>
> >> Your clock is too sick, (or our calibration of it is hosed), no
> >> version of {X}NTP will touch a clock which is outside +/- 500ppm.
> >>
> >> Could you try to measure the 14.31818... MHz base frequency and
> >> the 32768 kHz wristwatch xtal as well (I know you're RadioActive,
> >> so I pressume you have a counter ?)
> >>
> >> If they're both OK, then we have a code problem...
> >
> >You have a code problem ;-)
>
> If you have access to a frequency counter, could you try to make the
> same measurements please ?
I don't have one handy, BUT I saw this SAME problem across oh, 20 machines.
Every one. Every time.
And oh, by the way, when one of them (mine) was upgraded to the newest ntpd,
it *WENT AWAY*. Thus, I think its quite reasonable to say its not the clock
and must be the code (since the hardware could not have magically changed
:-)
> Do you have any refclocks we can use to measure against ?
Had one at MCS (Spectracom WWV receiver), but its there and I'm here. It
appears from their strata change (from 1 to 2; I chime off them) that they
turned it off. I should have taken it with me when I left :-)
BTW, speaking of which, does anyone know of a reasonably-cheap GPS receiver
that (1) has an external-able antenna that will work with somewhere between
50 and 100 feet of lead, and (2) has the appropriate pps outputs and such
so it can be used for this?
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