Richard B. Gilbert wrote: > Iburst simply causes ntpd to send eight requests to a server at > intervals of two seconds when it initializes. The eight replies that > will normally result allow ntpd to fill its filter pipeline and make a > pretty good guess at what time it is. Subsequent requests are sent at > the normal poll intervals, ranging from 64 to 1024 seconds.
Unless the specified peer becomes unreachable, in which case the eight-packet burst will resume until the peer is reachable. For ntp-4.2.4p4 anyway. Dennis -- Dennis Hilberg, Jr. \ timekeeper(at)dennishilberg(dot)com NTP Server Information: \ http://saturn.dennishilberg.com/ntp.php _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions