[Fwd: Re: [ntp:hackers] Weekend error report]

David L. Mills mills at udel.edu
Wed Oct 6 06:22:01 PDT 2004


Danny,

All broadcast senders repear at 64-s intervals.

Dave

Danny Mayer wrote:

> At 12:47 AM 10/6/2004, David L. Mills wrote:
> Danny,
>
>>> About the build. Originally, bridgeport and baldwin were to mount 
>>> pogo:/usr/local, but I see that is not the case. However, I see 
>>> evidence somebody (you?) built on bridgeport.
>>
>
> It was the case when I used it. However, the disk is full on 
> bridgeport so any build
> is likely to fail. I didn't build on bridgeport but since the pogo 
> disk was mounted
> I used the pogo build to test on bridgeport. I suspect your build 
> failed because
> of the disk space problem.
>
> When I ran ntpd on bridgeport I didn't see any broadast packets arrive 
> even
> though rackety was supposedly acting as a broadcast server. I couldn't 
> tell
> why, or if I waited long enough. How frequently is a broadcast packet 
> supposed
> to go out? It was receiving packets from the other servers listed.
>
> Are there any other nodes receiving broadcast packets?
>
> Danny
>
>
>>> Dave
>>> At 12:37 AM 9/27/2004, Danny Mayer wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> At 10:59 PM 9/26/2004, David L. Mills wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Danny,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> At the moment on the campus wire, rackety is broadcasting but 
>>>>>> bridgeport is not receiving.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I just took over bridgeport to see what was happening. It put it 
>>>>> back. There
>>>>> are a number of problems:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) It's out of disk space so it can't write anything to disk.
>>>>> 2) It's running an older build dated Sep 2 and not what you 
>>>>> installed elsewhere.
>>>>> 3) It's not receiving broadcast packets at all from what I can 
>>>>> tell. It does show
>>>>> that it was enabled to receive broadcast packets. How often does a 
>>>>> broadcast
>>>>> packet get sent? I only had a few minutes on which may not have been
>>>>> long enough. Are you sure rackety is sending broadcast packets?
>>>>>
>>>>>>  If albert is segfaulting somewhere in the address prettyprint 
>>>>>> routine and porkypine comes bum in that area, could there be a 
>>>>>> connection? The gdb bt got nowhere near the resolver library. 
>>>>>> Problem is, ntpq can't print addresses either. That may be a clue.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> We don't know what the problem is with albert except it was 
>>>>> segfaulting when
>>>>> trying to get addresses. Harlan may have something to say here 
>>>>> when he
>>>>> gets back. porkypine is, well, porkypine. Although it runs, 
>>>>> everything I tried
>>>>> to get an address back fails. This being an ancient box, I'm not 
>>>>> sure how
>>>>> hard we should try. Every idea I had failed.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Both Linux mort and Freebie howland eventually resolved there 
>>>>>> differences with rackety autokey, but I don't know why it took 
>>>>>> several repeats of the signature request. Poor SunOS rackety 
>>>>>> might be running out of steam.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> That could be. Is it that overloaded? I'm not sure why it would 
>>>>> require several
>>>>> tries unless the requests are timing out. Could that be what is 
>>>>> happening?
>>>>>
>>>>> Danny
>>>>




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