[ntp:questions] Re: abuse or bug ?
Henk Penning
henkp at cs.uu.nl
Sat Jan 29 11:47:36 UTC 2005
In <cteni6$puv$1 at dewey.udel.edu> "David L. Mills" <mills at udel.edu> writes:
>Henk,
>
>The ntpd appears to be running properly, although ntpdc lies through its
>teeth and ntpq is a much better diagnostic. The version is the current
>release, although it is well over a year old.
>
>So far as I know, yours is the only report of this behavior. My initial
>concern was that a bug like this occured in a test version and was
>quickly fixed before the test escaped our wires. In any case, that
>occasion was after 4.2.0 was released. Notwithstanding disclaimers, the
>quickest way for us to resume normal programming may be to move to a
>more modern release and stay tuned for further reports, if any.
If this is a bug, I hope it gets fixed because these 'timehogs'
(1% of our clients) generate 90% of ntp traffic.
Here is another one that looks promissing :
site count pack/min last [hrs ago] first [hrs ago]
pkimac.arc.nasa.gov 66429 57.4198 0.0 19.3
Does anyone have a cooperative contact at Ames Research ?
>Dave
Henk Penning
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