[ntp:questions] Internal IP Questions

Brad Knowles brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Wed Jul 27 15:37:37 UTC 2005


At 10:50 AM -0400 2005-07-27, derek.flake at bell.ca wrote:

>  I was just wondering about the difference between 127.0.0.1 and
>  127.127.1.1.

	The former is a real IP address.

>  Pinging the second IP resolves to the first one, but they aren't the
>  same.  If I leave the 127.127.1.1 as is, I get a clock_fault error in
>  event viewer.  What does this mean?

	In an /etc/ntp.conf file, the latter is not a real IP address but 
instead a selector to tell ntpd which refclock driver should be 
loaded.  Different values for the second octet are used to select 
different refclock drivers.

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