[ntp:questions] refid on client differs from refid on local server

Nigel Henry cave.dnb at tiscali.fr
Thu Dec 15 21:17:10 UTC 2005


With a bit of help from Danny in commenting out restrict lines, I now have NTP 
working well with my 2 Linux servers and multiple Linux clients on the other 
machine. One small query is. The refid's on the client distro's, when running 
ntpq> pe show the original IP address, as on the website for the stratum 2 
servers, but the refid IP addresses on my server ,are different. Why is this 
so? Also the other distro I use as a server (FC1) just shows alternative 
hostnames under refid for the same servers. Admittadly FC1 is using a 
slightly earlier version of NTP. A few details below, and the relevant ntpq> 
pe outputs below that.

FC2-server is using ntp-4.2.0-7
FC1-server is using ntp-4.1.2-5
FC2-client (as an example, as I have many clients) is using ntp-4.2.0-7

This is the ntpq> pe for the FC2 server

ntpq> pe
     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==============================================================================
+lptfpc46.obspm. 195.220.94.163   2 u   89  128  377  136.809    3.547 175.646
*ntp.kamino.fr   193.52.184.106   2 u  101  128  377  287.905    1.165  59.055
+ntp2.belbone.be 195.13.23.250    2 u   99  128  377  142.793  -62.327  53.907
ntpq>

This is the ntpq> pe for the FC2 client. One of many clients on this machine

ntpq> pe
     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==============================================================================
*192.168.0.230   216.32.94.18     3 u   79  128  377    0.422   32.474   8.907
 192.168.0.228   .INIT.          16 u    - 1024    0    0.000    0.000 4000.00
ntpq>

This is the ntpq> pe for the FC1 server, on the same machine as the FC2 
server, but showing alternative hostnames, rather than IP addresses under 
refid

ntpq> pe
     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==============================================================================
*lptfpc46.obspm. horlogegps.rese  2 u  106  128  377  128.493  -51.345   0.757
+ntp.kamino.fr   saturne.obs-bes  2 u  104  256  377  279.962  -70.196   7.481
+ntp2.belbone.be ntp0.belbone.be  2 u   44  256  377  135.129  -61.765   0.378
ntpq> pe

None of this is any big deal as NTP appears to be working very well and all my 
clocks are synched, but I would like to have an explanation to my query. 
Nigel.









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