[ntp:questions] Re: a few questions about broadcast

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Sat Oct 29 03:23:01 UTC 2005


Steve Kostecke wrote:
> On 2005-10-26, vrkid0 at gmail.com <vrkid0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Here is the configuration file for the brodcastclient:
>>#
>># ntpd configuratoin file
>>#
>>#act as a broadcast client
>>broadcastclient
>>disable auth
>>
>># write drift file
>>driftfile /var/ntp/ntp.drift
> 
> 
> The configuration shown above does not match the 'ntpq -p' output shown
> below (which I've reformatted for readability).
> 
> 
>>and the output of `ntpq -p`:
>> remote    refid          st t when poll reach delay   offset  disp
>>====================================================================
>>-puma      iix.net.il      3 -   13   16  377   0.72   -4.632  0.37
>>-pussycat  gatekeeper.no-s 2 -   30   64  377   0.56  -10.886  3.16
> 

This shows a very old version of ntpq. The refid should NOT be
interpreted as an IPv4 address.

Please upgrade.

Danny



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