Switch to NTP for presend as the echo service (RFC 862) is rarely
enabled. When presend is active, send an NTP client packet to the
server/peer and ignore the reply.
This also fixes presend with separate client sockets. The destination
port can't be changed on connected sockets, so the echo packet was sent
to the NTP port instead of the echo port.
NTP timestamps use only 32 bits to count seconds and the current NTP era
ends in 2036. Add support for converting NTP timestamps from other NTP
eras on systems with 64-bit time_t.
The earliest assumed NTP time is set by the configure script (by default
to 50 years before the date of the build) and earlier NTP timestamps
underflow to the following NTP era.
Create a new connected client socket before each request and close it
when a valid reply is received.
This is useful when the network configuration is changed and the client
socket should be reconnected, but the old bound address remains valid
and sendmsg() doesn't return with an error.
This will be needed to prevent loading of dump files after sources have
already accumulated samples and possibly reference was already updated
when async resolving of sources is implemented.
When source is set as active, it's receiving reachability updates (e.g.
offline NTP sources are not active).
Also add function to count active sources.
Explicitly set the number of iburst samples to the size of the register
to make sure there are at least 7 reachability updates and the
initstepslew mode can be ended.
If acquisitionport is set to 0 (default), create and connect a new
socket for each server instead of using one socket per address family
for all servers.
If the remote stratum is higher than ours, try to lock on the peer's
polling to minimize our response time by slightly extending our delay or
waiting for the peer to catch up with us as the random part in the
actual interval is reduced. If the remote stratum is equal to ours, try
to interleave evenly with the peer.
If the remote peer uses a polling interval shorter than the local
minimum, the local peer will be unable to send any packets as the
timeout will be updated on every received valid packet and will never
expire.
Modify the delay calculation to aim at poll interval away since the last
transmit.
Also, share the delay calculation code with transmit_timeout().
This should prevent chronyd from getting stuck and refusing new samples
due to failing test4 when the current measured frequency offset is close
to 1.0. That can happen when the system clock is stepped forward behind
chronyd's back.
Allow different hash functions to be used in the NTP and cmdmon
protocols. This breaks the cmdmon protocol compatibility. Extended key
file format is used to specify the hash functions for chronyd and new
authhash command is added to chronyc. MD5 is the default and the only
function included in the chrony source code, other functions will be
available from libraries.
Add new flag to source struct to indicate when source is selectable
(packets with good headers are received) and use a reachability
register for last 8 samples instead of the reachable flag. Source
drivers now provide only reachability updates.
Split test7 into two and to accumulate the sample require that all tests
pass, except the one which checks packet stratum is not higher than ours.
Also, don't mark the source as unreachable when only test4c fails.
Require that the ratio of the increase in delay from the minimum one in
the stats data register to the standard deviation of the offsets in the
register is less than maxdelaydevratio or the difference between
measured offset and predicted offset is larger than the increase in
delay. In the allowed delay increase is included also skew and maximum
clock frequency error.
maxdelaydevratio is 10.0 by default.
Instead of following skew changes, adjust polling interval so that the
number of measurements used in the regression algorithm remains close to
a target value. It can be configured with a new polltarget option
(6 by default).
