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

Raúl raul at rmgi.net
Tue Mar 21 13:02:12 UTC 2017


Thank you very much, Miroslav.


On 21 March 2017 at 12:43, Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 12:30:01PM +0000, Raúl wrote:
> > So, using "ntpdc -c iostats", the numbers under the labels "received
> > packets" and "packets sent" are the total number of requests
> > received/served since the last server reboot?
>
> Yes, except the numbers include all received and transmitted NTP
> packets, not just clients' requests and responses. That is, it will
> include also ntpd's own requests and responses from its servers, and
> also ntpdc/ntpq requests and responses, even from localhost.
>
> --
> Miroslav Lichvar
>


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