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- From: ramey@csc.ti.com (Joe Ramey)
- Subject: should distance be this large for a local clock?
- Message-ID: <RAMEY.92Dec12161000@jello.csc.ti.com>
- Originator: ramey@jello
- Lines: 28
- Sender: usenet@csc.ti.com
- Nntp-Posting-Host: jello
- Reply-To: ramey@csc.ti.com
- Organization: Texas Instruments
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 22:10:43 GMT
-
- I am trying to bring up xntp3 on my Sun4. The other NTP systems on my
- network all run version 2 of NTP. I specified version 2 in the
- ntp.conf file for the peers and servers that I configured, but I could
- never get xntpd to sync up.
-
- Looking into things further I discovered that it was discarding the
- packets because the `distance' field of the packets it received was
- too large (0x140000 > 0x100000). Here is some output from ntpq
- looking at our stratum 1 server:
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- /usr/local/etc/ntpq sunspot.hc.ti.com
- ntpq> pe
- remote refid st when poll reach delay offset disp
- ==========================================================================
- *127.127.1.0 .LCL. 0 43 64 377 5000.0 0.00 0.0
- ntpq> readlist
- status=0033 leap_none, sync_unspec, 3 events, event_sync_chg
- system="UNIX", leap=00, stratum=1, distance=20000.0, dispersion=0.0,
- peer=46196, refid=LCL,
- reftime=aed4dce9.4e11c000 Sat, Dec 12 1992 15:49:29.304,
- clock=aed4dd18.19abe000 Sat, Dec 12 1992 15:50:16.100, hold=0,
- phase=0.00, freq=0.00, compliance=0.00
- ntpq>
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- The delay (5000) and the distance (20000) seem awfully large to me.
- Does it look like this server is working properly or not?
-