On Friday 26 October 2018 09:53:39 Greg Wooledge wrote: > 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.
And is instant, thanks Greg. -- 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>