[ntp:questions] Re: ntpd, boot time, and hot plugging

Brad Knowles brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Fri Feb 4 08:50:43 UTC 2005


At 4:21 AM +0000 2005-02-04, Tom Smith wrote:

>  # time ntpd -gq [13 servers in ntp.conf]
>  ntpd: time slew -0.000373s
>
>  real    1m43.03s
>  user    0m0.10s
>  sys     0m0.60s

	Yes, but what does that ntp.conf look like?  Are you using 
iburst?  Any authentication?  Manually setting minpoll and/or 
maxpoll?  Did you have a good drift file to start with?

	You need to provide some more specifics before you can make an 
attempt to compare this to ntpdate.

>  # time ntpdate -b [three selected servers]
>   3 Feb 22:44:45 ntpdate[186032]: step time server [IP address] 
>offset -0.000157 sec

	Not comparable.  You need to include all thirteen servers before 
this could potentially be considered comparable.

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