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Re: ntp problem in broadcastclients

From rhkramer@gmail.com
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: ntp problem in broadcastclients
Date 2018-10-25 01:20 +0200
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On Wednesday, October 24, 2018 06:25:46 PM Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 October 2018 11:07:05 rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> > I think that covers what I was going to say, but in an attempt to show
> > off my knowledge (or lack thereof) ;-)
> > 
> > As I understand it, NTP tries to get an approximate correct time for
> > each client machine by doing something like measuring the round trip
> > time to the server and back, then dividing by two, and applying that
> > as a correction to the broadcast time from the NTP server.
> > 
> > That was my understanding "back in the day" and I assume something
> > similar is still occurring.
> > 
> > On the other hand, it is hard to imagine that computers on your LAN
> > have a latency anywhere near 70 seconds in communication from your NTP
> > "server" on the same LAN (the one broadcasting the time).
> 
> Standard pings are in the 1 millisecond range.

Not the problem, for sure!

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ntp problem in broadcastclients Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-10-24 14:30 +0200
  Re: ntp problem in broadcastclients Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-10-24 14:50 +0200
    Re: ntp problem in broadcastclients john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2018-10-24 16:30 +0200
      Re: ntp problem in broadcastclients rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-24 17:10 +0200
        Re: ntp problem in broadcastclients Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-10-25 00:30 +0200
          Re: ntp problem in broadcastclients rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-25 01:20 +0200
            Re: ntp problem in broadcastclients rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-25 01:20 +0200
      Re: ntp problem in broadcastclients Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-10-25 00:30 +0200
        Re: ntp problem in broadcastclients Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-10-25 14:30 +0200
          Re: ntp problem in broadcastclients Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-10-25 15:40 +0200
            Re: ntp problem in broadcastclients Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-10-25 20:10 +0200
              Re: ntp problem in broadcastclients Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-10-25 20:20 +0200
                Re: ntp problem in broadcastclients Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-10-25 22:50 +0200
                Re: ntp problem in broadcastclients Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-10-25 23:00 +0200
                Re: ntp problem in broadcastclients Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-10-25 23:40 +0200
                Re: ntp problem in broadcastclients Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-10-26 14:30 +0200
                Re: ntp problem in broadcastclients Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-10-26 15:40 +0200
                Re: ntp problem in broadcastclients Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-10-26 16:00 +0200
                Re: ntp problem in broadcastclients Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-10-26 16:40 +0200
                Re: ntp problem in broadcastclients Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-10-26 15:10 +0200
                Re: ntp problem in broadcastclients Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-10-26 15:50 +0200
                Re: ntp problem in broadcastclients Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-10-26 16:30 +0200

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