[ntp:questions] Re: NTP Server not responding to clients

Maarten Wiltink maarten at kittensandcats.net
Thu Aug 7 20:40:59 UTC 2003


Rob MacGregor wrote in message ...
>James wrote:
[...]
>> [root at servermachine log]# ntpq -p
>>      remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset
>>  jitter
>>
===========================================================================
===
>>  LOCAL(0)        LOCAL(0)        10 l    4   64  377    0.000    0.000
>>   0.000
>>  foo.stratum1.co 0.0.0.0          1 u   16   64  377    0.000    0.000
>> 4000.00
>>  bar.stratum1.co 0.0.0.0          1 u   60   64  377    0.000    0.000
>> 4000.00
>>  foo.stratum2.co 0.0.0.0          2 u    1   64  377   71.070   -1.707
>>   0.000
>>  bar.stratum2.co 0.0.0.0          2 u   28   64  377    0.000    0.000
>> 4000.00
>>  baz.stratum2.co 0.0.0.0          2 u    -   64    0    0.000    0.000
>> 4000.00
>> -----
>
>I don't think you're reading that right.  With no refid you've not
>reached it.  You should see at least one line starting with a * to
>indicate sync.


His output is obviously doctored, and I guess he just edited out
a little too much. I would guess that he didn't actually touch the
local clock line (including not removing the sync marker from it),
and my guess is the machine was synced to foo.stratum2.

I can see his not wanting his hostnames all over Usenet, but either
he went overboard with editing the delay, offset, and jitter columns,
or there _is_ something fishy going on there.

Groetjes,
Maarten Wiltink






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