On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 09:29:38AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > and it goes out on the net and checks > all servers before ntpq -p is completed, take 5 or 6 seconds to do that,
That's DNS resolution. It's looking up the IP addresses so it can report names to you. If you want to skip that, you can use "ntpq -p -n". That one should be very fast.
