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Peter B.<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>nixCraft</span></a></span> : Cosmic rays or timesync not in order? 👹 🕜 🕑 </p><p>(<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ntpd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ntpd</span></a> vs <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/systemd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>systemd</span></a>-resolved anyone?!)</p>
Hugo 雨果<p>Why am I using <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/chrony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chrony</span></a> when <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/busybox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>busybox</span></a> already provides <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ntpd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ntpd</span></a>?</p>
adingbatponder<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://federated.channel/profile/mark" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.radio/@M0CUV" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>M0CUV</span></a></span> Perhaps some info here on clocks via GPS, very tantalising rabbit hole.... <br><a href="https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/ntp/gps" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/se</span><span class="invisible">rvices/ntp/gps</span></a><br><a href="https://github.com/domschl/RaspberryNtpServer" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/domschl/RaspberryNt</span><span class="invisible">pServer</span></a><br><a href="https://github.com/tiagofreire-pt/rpi_uputronics_stratum1_chrony" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/tiagofreire-pt/rpi_</span><span class="invisible">uputronics_stratum1_chrony</span></a><br><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/gps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gps</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/stratum1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stratum1</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ntp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ntp</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/chrony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chrony</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ntpd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ntpd</span></a></p>
Martin Boller 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 :tux: :freebsd: :windows: :mastodon:<p>Just like DNS way, way, waaaaaaaay too many seem to mess up NTP. So I wrote a thing about monitoring NTP with OpenSearch/ElasticSearch. </p><p><a href="https://www.infosecworrier.dk/blog/2025/03/ntpmonitoring/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">infosecworrier.dk/blog/2025/03</span><span class="invisible">/ntpmonitoring/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ElasticSearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElasticSearch</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/OpenSearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSearch</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/NTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NTP</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/NTPd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NTPd</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/NTPSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NTPSec</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CriticalInfrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriticalInfrastructure</span></a></p>
David Andersen<p>sigh. it has been 0️⃣ days since I wanted to rewrite <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ntpd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ntpd</span></a> and <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/gpsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gpsd</span></a> in <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rust</span></a> again.</p><p>(ntpd on a raspberry pi is now crashing when i make it use the gps as a reference clock).</p><p>Time to try out Chrony before I start screaming or writing code.</p>
Josef 'Jeff' Sipek<p>Lately I've been looking at my <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/NTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NTP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/rrdtool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rrdtool</span></a> graphs more often because I switched the NTP implementation on my <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a> server from <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/ntpd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ntpd</span></a> to <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/chrony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chrony</span></a>. Overall, I'm quite impressed with chrony - although it seems to be so good I wonder if I'm plotting comparable data. :) <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/timenut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>timenut</span></a></p><p>Last week, I did a major OS upgrade and replaced a dumb switch with a managed one and set up LACP. Doing this however seems to result in weird latency/time offset spikes. Unplugging one of the two members cleans it up.</p>
Christian Pietsch (old acct.)<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@texttheater" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>texttheater</span></a></span> Die Unix-Philosophie besagt: "Do one thing, and do it well". Damit ist gemeint, dass jedes Kommandozeilenprogramm einen bestimmten Skopus haben sollte (<a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Orthogonalit%C3%A4t" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orthogonalität</span></a>). Durch Pipelines usw. lassen sich die Unix-Tools bei Bedarf kombinieren. Systemd hat statt dessen alles Mögliche wahllos integriert – oftmals in schlechterer Qualität. So musste ich erst neulich wieder <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/ntpd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ntpd</span></a> installieren, weil das in <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/systemd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>systemd</span></a> integrierte Pendant einfach nicht gut genug ist.</p>