Re: ntpq quirks

2018-09-22 Thread Eric S. Raymond via devel
Hal Murray : > > > # Requests are automatically retried once, so total timeout with no > > # response is a bit over 2 * DEFTIMEOUT, or 10 seconds. > > Thanks. That sounds reasonable, but I can't translate that into what I'm > seeing. > > Did you check the code? Does it bail on the second tim

Re: ntpq quirks

2018-09-21 Thread Hal Murray via devel
> # Requests are automatically retried once, so total timeout with no > # response is a bit over 2 * DEFTIMEOUT, or 10 seconds. Thanks. That sounds reasonable, but I can't translate that into what I'm seeing. Did you check the code? Does it bail on the second timeout? Is there an extra re

Re: ntpq quirks

2018-09-21 Thread Eric S. Raymond via devel
Hal Murray via devel : > > Anybody familiar with the retransmission code? I think I'm the only person who has touched it. > It seems to hang occasionally. A wild guess, there is some backoff code in > there that increases the retransmission timer. That's good. I'm guessing > that my problem

Re: ntpq quirks

2016-12-01 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Hal Murray : > This is from a day or so ago. > > [murray@second ~]$ ntpq -d 4 -nc mru > ntpq can only work interactively on one host. > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/local/bin/ntpq", line 1635, in > session.openhost(*interpreter.chosts[0]) > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.

Re: ntpq quirks

2016-12-01 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Hal Murray : > The current peers command is broken. It's printing a big bunch of blanks > instead of the host name for each slot. It way overflows an 80 character > line. Well, that was a symphony of stupid. On my part. Here's what happened. I fixed the kludgy way I had implemented termsize

Re: ntpq quirks

2016-11-30 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Hal Murray : > The mru list is getting printed out oldest first. I thought you fixed that. I thought I did too. Testing... esr@snark:~/software/ntp-rescue/ntpsec$ ntpq -c mru Ctrl-C will stop MRU retrieval and display partial results. Retrieved 12 unique MRU entries and 0 updates. lstint avgint