[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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