On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 07:25:35PM +0000, James wrote:
> ntpq -p
> remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter
> ==============================================================================
> ecoca.eed.usv.r 80.96.120.253 2 u 8 64 1 202.639 1436722 0.001
You may already know this, but according to my interpretation of the
NTP documentation, the above line says that you are actually NOT
sync'ed to any NTP server.
That first space in the peers list is a tally mark that, according
to the ntpq documentation at:
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/ntpq.html
Means that those peers are all rejected: "The peer is discarded as
unreachable, synchronized to this server (synch loop) or outrageous
synchronization distance."
I pointed this out to a friend, who didn't even realize that he
wasn't sync'ing. I'd bet some real money that many folks are
running ntp, but oblivious to the fact that they actually arent
synchronizing to anyone else.
I don't think using a space as a tic mark to indicate an error (or
at least undesireable) condition is particularly
helpful---especially with no heading!
Matt
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