From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 3 21:20:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA14A37B400 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 21:20:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E18543E42 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 21:20:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA18423; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 21:20:06 -0700 Message-ID: <3D7589F5.3030905@owt.com> Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 21:20:05 -0700 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020508 Netscape6/6.2.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Lambert Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: src/contrib/ntp/readme.y2kfixes References: <200209021544.29354.kdagee@owt.com> <3D73F06E.4090403@owt.com> <20020904033633.GA15242@laptop.lambertfam.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Scott Lambert wrote: > On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 04:12:46PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: > >> >>Karl Agee wrote: >> >> >>>something is **broken** with the above file on the ftp mirros. I cant >>>download it via cvsup, anon ftp or http. it downloads some of it and then >>>stalls every_time. >>> >>> >>If you more the file, it looks like there are several 1000 nulls (at >>least 1 full screen) at the end. >> > > Sounds like the time we found a bit pattern that would send the telco's > atm/frame relay switch port to Mars for several minutes. I think it was > a stream of more than X space chars. We could ping across the link with > spaces as the ping payload and knock the link down anytime we wanted. > It still took us a few days to convince the telco. We were just lucky we > had three T1s on that link. > Karl and I both use the same ISP. I have a ADSL connection and I think he is using a modem. I have been using my local cvs-mirror and decided to try cvsuping from cvsup16. It worked for me. Karl could be on a different frame-relay. My ISP displays statistics and I have figured out what links I am on by starting an iso download. I did it early in the morning when everything was quiet and the traffic on the connections I use go straight up when I start the transfer and straight down when I pause the transfer. A traffic delta of 700kb/s is usually noticeable on my ISP. FWIW, od claims the nulls start at ~0011413 and stops at 0020000. Even if the count is in octal, that is a lot of nulls at the end of the file :). The size of the file is 8192 and I can only count 4875 characters in the text portion of the file. The rest are nulls. I think it is a messed up file :). Kent - Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message