[ntp:questions] Re: ntpd on Windows XP

Richard B. Gilbert rgilbert88 at comcast.net
Thu Mar 24 23:38:59 UTC 2005


David Woolley wrote:

>In article <dN2dnW9-DubMTdzfRVn-pA at comcast.com>,
>Richard B. Gilbert <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>on the server."   (Add explanation of the exact circumstances in which 
>>using this might be appropriate. (We certainly don't want people just 
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>I seem to remember that the purpose was to support demand dialling.
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>>plugging this in "because it's there"!!!))
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>But human psychology is such that they will.  (Mine's better than yours.)
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Mine's bigger!  :-)

>>Iburst
>>Recommended for most servers.  Initializes the association quickly by 
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>It's unclear as to whether server refers to the remote machine 
>(in which case there will be confusion because, whilst it is not
>useful for reference clocks, "server" is used for those in the 
>configuration file), or whether it is loose usage for the local
>machine, which is really a client in this context.
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Correction accepted.   Rewrite to read: "Recommended for most network 
servers.  Has not effect with hardware reference clocks.  Initializes 
the association quickly by. . . .

>>sending eight packets at intervals of two seconds except that the first 
>>may be delayed by sixteen seconds to allow for modem dialup.  After the 
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