Re: Nonce aging has been repaired

2016-12-20 Thread Hal Murray
>> Note that it is using the old nonce. > I had to stare at this for quite a while before I figured it out. > When I switched from the old C code's buggy use of a counter to trigger the > new nonce request to a timeout, I also needed to invert the order of > operation of the nonce request and the

Re: Nonce aging has been repaired

2016-12-20 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Hal Murray : > Note that it is using the old nonce. I had to stare at this for quite a while before I figured it out. When I switched from the old C code's buggy use of a counter to trigger the new nonce request to a timeout, I also needed to invert the order of operation of the nonce request and

Re: Nonce aging has been repaired

2016-12-19 Thread Hal Murray
e...@thyrsus.com said: > The Python client library now requests nonces every 16 seconds during an > MRU-request sequence, rather than every 4 requests. I don't think we are on the same wavelength yet. You may have fixed a bug (thanks), but ntpd still sends back a new nonce that is getting igno

Nonce aging has been repaired

2016-12-19 Thread Eric S. Raymond
The Python client library now requests nonces every 16 seconds during an MRU-request sequence, rather than every 4 requests. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.