[pkg-ntp-maintainers] minpoll in ntp.conf

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 05:27:38PM +0200, Antonio Gómez Bruque wrote:
> Dear Srs:
> 
> I would like to know if you have been reported about any bug regarding
> the ntp daemon.
> I am trying to query a local ntp server with a minpoll of 16 seconds and
> a maxpoll of also 16 seconds. I haved added the following line to
> ntp.conf:
> 
> server 192.168.1.5 minpoll 4 maxpoll 4
> 
> However, the daemon does not issue the query until 64 s after the date
> is modified. The daemons seems to be ignoring the minpoll and maxpoll
> parameters.

The documentation says you should be able to use 16 seconds, but I have
to wonder why you think you need such low values.  I think this will
have as effect that it won't try and adjust your system clock
frequentie, and things like that.

Anyway, I don't know about a bug report about it, please take a look at
http://bugs.debian.org/ntp and http://bugs.ntp.org


Kurt