On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 04:40:46PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > I added the router to the server list for this machine and get this for an > ntpq -p: > remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter > ============================================================================== > router.coyote.d .INIT. 16 u - 512 0 0.000 0.000 0.000 > -ip7.nsg.sbbsnet 64.113.44.54 2 u 31 64 17 43.611 5.083 2.148 > +142.147.92.5.st 216.218.192.202 2 u 37 64 377 82.436 -3.643 1.587 > *dfw1.m-d.net 204.9.54.119 2 u 99 64 376 49.024 -0.327 1.700 > +12.167.151.2 198.148.79.210 3 u 31 64 377 15.694 0.584 2.247 > 192.168.71.255 .BCST. 16 u - 64 0 0.000 0.000 0.000
The first line (router.coyote.d, which I presume is your router) is showing stratum 16, which means it does not consider itself to be a valid time source yet. This could be because you haven't given it enough time to stabilize (i.e. you just restarted it), or because it can't actually contact any time servers in order to synchronize at all. If it remains "st 16" for more than a few minutes, then something is probably wrong. Meanwhile, this system is getting valid time synchronization from four other sources (three of them stratum 2, one stratum 3). Your offset values look good (the offset is shown in milliseconds, so you are within about 5 milliseconds of all your valid sources).
