ntpq flakiness

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Wed Apr 10 21:57:49 UTC 2019


Thanks.

There is another quirk that seems related to retransmissions.  I forget the 
details.  I'm pretty sure there is bug report on it.


> I do remember that there was a very old issue with flaky behavior of ntpq
> over WiFi that we thought might be due to a bug in the fragment reassembly

If I interpret "WiFi" as lost packets, that fits in with the other collected 
observations.

My guess is that this new quirk is just what happens with "peers" when lots of 
packets get lost and we just haven't seen it enough before now to get reported.


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