[ntp:questions] Re: Contradicting RFC<---> Implementation

Richard B. Gilbert rgilbert88 at comcast.net
Mon Oct 3 19:16:09 UTC 2005


Remo wrote:

>Hi,
>
>The NTP RFC does'nt mention anything explicitly about the sanity checks
>of the clock_select procedure, but the rootdispersion check for an
>association is made with the MAXDISPERSE(16 sec).{according to RFC}.
>
>In some implementations, I could see that the limit is MAXDISTANCE + 2
>(which is 3 seconds). In the time, wondering about this change and the
>"3 seconds", I found that the w32time service provides a rootdispersion
>above 1 second.
>
>Could anyone let me know the reason for this change and why the w32time
>service is way above threshold of 1 sec???
>
>Thanks for your time!!!
>
>Thanks,
>Remo
>
>  
>
W32Time is a Microsoft implementation of the SNTP protocol.  It does not 
comply with the RFC for SNTP.   Questions and complaints should be 
directed to Microsoft!   (lots of luck!!)




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