[ntp:questions] NTP server - Number of received petitions.

Raúl raul at rmgi.net
Mon Mar 20 23:17:50 UTC 2017


Hi Mike,

I'm using the ntpd version 4.2.6p5, the default one with CentOS 7.

I have to investigate how to update ntpd to last available version.

Thanks for your help,
Regards.

Raúl.

On 20 March 2017 at 23:12, Mike Cook <michael.cook at sfr.fr> wrote:

> Hi Raul,
>    If the mrulist command is unknown, you must be running a back level ntp
> though I don’t know which version first introduced the command. You can run
> ntpd --version to see what you have. There are good reasons, esp security,
> that you use a recent version.
>
> Mike
>
> > Le 20 mars 2017 à 20:10, Raúl <raul at rmgi.net> a écrit :
> >
> > Hello Mike,
> >
> > Thanks for your answer.
> >
> > This is my first time using a mailing list (my first question was done
> via Google Groups) and I I hope to be doing it the right way.
> >
> > My fault, maybe "petitions" was not the right word, "request" is the
> right one. My english level is not good and in Spanish, you can use
> "petitions" with no problem. For example, "Las peticiones recibidas por el
> servidor". Sorry for that.
> >
> > I'm just trying to know the load of my NTP server. The number of
> requests done by clients, not addresses or anything else, just the number
> of request in a given moment.
> >
> > I read in NTP documentation ntpdc it's deprecated but when i run "ntpq
> -c mrulist" I receive "***Command `mrulist' unknown".
> >
> > Thanks again for your help.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 8 March 2017 at 11:05, Mike Cook <michael.cook at sfr.fr> wrote:
> >
> > > Le 8 mars 2017 à 11:53, Micron <raul at rmgi.net> a écrit :
> > >
> > > Hello.
> > >
> > > Recently, I've added my NTP server in the pool and I'm looking for the
> way to know the number of petitions received from clients.
> > >
> > > If I run "ntpdc -c iostats", the number under the label "received
> packets" are the petitions received in my server?
> >
> > That’s about right. Petitions isn’t the right word . requests is better.
> > You get more interesting data with.
> > ntpq -c mrulist
> >
> > regards
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > >
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