Re: Re: Tracking Clock Skew; Computer Forensics

Todd Walton <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.freenet.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 22:13:50 +0200, Mika Hirvonen <[email protected]> wrote:
> More information is available at
> http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/ntpd.html#op

>From that page:

"By default, ntpd runs in continuous mode where each of possibly
several external servers is polled at intervals determined by an
intricate state machine. The state machine measures the incidental
roundtrip delay jitter and oscillator frequency wander and determines
the best poll interval using a heuristic algorithm. Ordinarily, and in
most operating environments, the state machine will start with 64s
intervals and eventually increase in steps to 1024s. A small amount of
random variation is introduced in order to avoid bunching at the
servers. In addition, should a server become unreachable for some
time, the poll interval is increased in steps to 1024s in order to
reduce network overhead."

-todd
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