[ntp:questions] nptq -p slowness
Danny Mayer
mayer at ntp.isc.org
Sun Feb 4 05:48:30 UTC 2007
David J Taylor wrote:
> Danny Mayer wrote:
>> David J Taylor wrote:
>>> Harlan Stenn wrote:
>>> []
>>>> I want to stop doing this resolution altogether, but the last time I
>>>> asked Dave about this he said he wanted to keep the lookup in place,
>>>> even though it is only useful for IPv4.
>>>>
>>>> H
>>> Even though this was not Dave's intention, as a user I find it very
>>> helpful to see what reference IP addresses (with an option to
>>> convert to names) servers are using one level up. Perhaps others
>>> find it useful as well.
>>>
>>> David
>> You can use dig to lookup names from addresses if you really need to
>> know and since the value of the refid is not necessarily an IPv4
>> address it's not something we should be doing anyway.
>>
>> Danny
>
> Why use two tools when one would do? Computers should be /reducing/ the
> amount of typing (or whatever), so I would rather see the option as part
> of NTPQ.
>
> David
It's called ntptrace.
Danny
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