[ntp:questions] Re: Why so many dead NTP servers in pool.ntp.org?
Tapio Sokura
oh2kku at iki.fi
Tue Dec 13 02:37:48 UTC 2005
Raphae wrote:
> when running the command
>
> # ntptrace pool.ntp.org
>
>
> more than half of the servers in the pool seem to be dead. Isn't
Are you sure that they are dead, or just not responding to NTP control
mode (mode 6) packets? Because mode 6 is what ntptrace uses, when the
actual NTP time queries are sent/received using modes 1-5. All pool
servers that I just tried did answer to normal time queries (mode 3)
just fine. Some server operators choose to restrict mode 6 queries, that
is completely acceptable by the pool rules.
Tapio
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