Re: Recommended Number of NTP Servers

2019-11-04 Thread Hal Murray via devel
> But using all four names definitely gets me IPs a lot faster, which makes a > difference for initial convergence. It would be interesting to run some experiments. If you have minsane set to 3, how long does it take to get started with 1, 2, or 3 pool slots? How about using 2.pool so you can

Re: ntpsec history

2019-11-04 Thread Hal Murray via devel
>> Was there any discussion in ntpsec-land about disabling mode 6 >> queries *by default?* > Dunno, best to ask on devel@ntpsec.org I don't remember any discussion like that. There are at least 2 reasons to block/disable mode 6. The first is the DDoS problem with the old monlist command. That

Re: Recommended Number of NTP Servers

2019-11-04 Thread James Browning via devel
On Mon, Nov 4, 2019, at 5:23 PM Richard Laager via devel wrote: > Each of these names (N.debian.pool.ntp.org) resolves to only 4 IPs.* The > four of them resolve to (mostly) non-overlapping IPs. In other words, if > I resolve only one name, I get 4 IPs, but if I resolve all four names, I > get 15

Re: Recommended Number of NTP Servers

2019-11-04 Thread Richard Laager via devel
On 11/4/19 12:35 PM, Achim Gratz via devel wrote: > Richard Laager via devel writes: >> The default for maxclock is 10. This includes the "pool" entries, of >> which the stock Debian configuration has four: >> pool 0.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst >> pool 1.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst >> pool 2.debian.p

Re: ntpsec history

2019-11-04 Thread Gary E. Miller via devel
Yo Steven! On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 17:00:19 -0600 Steven Sommars wrote: > Hi Gary, > > ntpsec 1.1.7 with the trivial configuration file = > pool pool.ntp.org # (or server a.b.c.d) > by enables the host to be a server. It also configure ntpsec to > respond to some mode 6 queries. > > Wa

Re: recommended libs

2019-11-04 Thread Achim Gratz via devel
Udo van den Heuvel via devel writes: > Can anybody mention which libraries in the chroot I should have for > ntpsec's ntpd? > ldd /usr/sbin/ntpd linux-vdso.so.1 (0x7ffd0dafc000) libcrypto.so.1.1 => /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.1 (0x7fcfd5415000) libssl.so.1.1 => /usr/l

Re: Recommended Number of NTP Servers

2019-11-04 Thread Achim Gratz via devel
Richard Laager via devel writes: > The default for maxclock is 10. This includes the "pool" entries, of > which the stock Debian configuration has four: > pool 0.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst > pool 1.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst > pool 2.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst > pool 3.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst >

Re: recommended libs

2019-11-04 Thread Hal Murray via devel
devel@ntpsec.org said: > Can anybody mention which libraries in the chroot I should have for ntpsec's > ntpd? ldd will tell you. [murray@hgm raw]$ ldd /usr/local/sbin/ntpd linux-vdso.so.1 (0x7ffdde1b6000) libcrypto.so.1.1 => /lib64/libcrypto.so.1.1 (0x7f0ef209f000)

Re: recommended libs

2019-11-04 Thread Udo van den Heuvel via devel
On 04-11-2019 16:10, Udo van den Heuvel via devel wrote: > Question: > > Can anybody mention which libraries in the chroot I should have for > ntpsec's ntpd? > Things are working now but perhaps functionality can improve with the > right software in lib64. FWIW: so far I see these being used: #

recommended libs

2019-11-04 Thread Udo van den Heuvel via devel
On 03-11-2019 17:53, Achim Gratz via devel wrote: > Alternatively, sysfs lets you know the device number in a > perhaps more script-friendly version: > >> cat /sys/devices/virtual/pps/pps0/dev > 249:0 Thanks, I'll find a way to script that for the chroot. Question: Can anybody mention which lib

Re: Recommended Number of NTP Servers

2019-11-04 Thread Hal Murray via devel
rlaa...@wiktel.com said: > Can you expand on the meaning of "should" here? Are you saying what you think > the current state is, or what you think the desired state is? Here is the get-more chunk of code: if ((peer_associations <= 2 * sys_maxclock) && (peer_

Re: Recommended Number of NTP Servers

2019-11-04 Thread Richard Laager via devel
On 11/4/19 4:32 AM, Hal Murray wrote: > The pool entries shouldn't be counted as servers. Can you expand on the meaning of "should" here? Are you saying what you think the current state is, or what you think the desired state is? The current state is definitely that pool entries count towards max

Re: Recommended Number of NTP Servers

2019-11-04 Thread Hal Murray via devel
Richard Laager said: > The default for maxclock is 10. This includes the "pool" entries, of > which the stock Debian configuration has four: > pool 0.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst > pool 1.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst > pool 2.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst > pool 3.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst > As a resu

Recommended Number of NTP Servers

2019-11-04 Thread Richard Laager via devel
The default for maxclock is 10. This includes the "pool" entries, of which the stock Debian configuration has four: pool 0.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst pool 1.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst pool 2.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst pool 3.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst As a result, the default is to use 6 pool serv