On Friday 26 October 2018 08:26:47 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 05:36:21PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I put the router back on pool.ntp.org, but had to reboot it to take > > effect. > > > > Now this machine shows for ntpq -p: > > remote refid st t when poll reach delay > > offset jitter > > ==================================================================== > >========== +159.203.158.197 45.33.103.94 3 u 59 64 3 > > 19.551 -1.356 61.116 *tick.mdacore.ne 130.207.244.240 2 u 61 > > 64 3 30.488 -2.042 3.042 -ntp3.junkemailf 216.218.254.202 > > 2 u 59 64 3 82.196 -7.491 2.306 +208.76.53.137 > > 216.218.254.202 2 u 64 64 3 40.852 -2.476 0.889 > > 192.168.71.255 .BCST. 16 u - 64 0 0.000 > > 0.000 0.000 > > > > But should the .BCST. be a 16 ?? Or is that just the nature of the > > beast? > > According to <http://doc.ntp.org/4.2.2/debug.html>, BCST means "The > association belongs to a broadcast server." And unfortunately, as I > mentioned before, I've never used NTP in broadcast mode. So at this > point you're officially beyond my knowledge level.
Well, with all the clients now reporting this machine as a stratum 3 and fractions of a millisecond for an ntpq -p, and this machine reporting 5 servers and one BCST at a st=16, and it goes out on the net and checks all servers before ntpq -p is completed, take 5 or 6 seconds to do that, I'd have to say its working. dd-wrt hasn't an ntpq -p output, so I've left it to its own devices, listing its server as pool.ntp.org. It doesn't seem to have a switch to turn on .BCST. That does seem odd as ISTR seeing it in an older version. So I think I've done my part to reduce the load on the debian stratum 2 servers pool. TANSTAAFL. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
