[ntp:questions] Re: Dopey selection of server

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Fri Jan 30 17:40:11 UTC 2004


Christopher Burian <cburian at ll.mit.edu> wrote in message news:<mailman.70.1075437197.1757.questions at ntp.org>...
> Can anyone explain this:
> 
> ntpq> pe
>      remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset 
> jitter
> ==============================================================================
> +cs.columbia.edu 204.123.2.5      2 u  725 1024  377   16.819   -7.688  
> 2.119
> +filbert.cc.colu 128.59.39.48     2 u  704 1024  377   22.523   -4.356  
> 5.053
> *cudns.cit.corne 192.5.41.40      2 u  656 1024  377   60.335   13.325 
> 23.390
> ntpq>
> 
> Instead of rejecting the one that is off the most from the others, it is 
> selecting that wayward server, despite it having the worst jitter as well.
> Is the selection based on a longer time frame, and I just happened to pick
> a bad time to look at how it's doing?
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris

You need to include the rv information as well to tell that.
Try ntpq -p -c rv

I'm curious why you're not using MIT's time servers. I do.

Danny



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