On 2009-01-22, phr...@gmail.com <phr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> It only takes a few seconds to grep an NTP source tree for 'STC' (or >> any other string. Hardly a difficult task. > > Grepping is easy. Which source tree shall I download and search?
To the best of my knowledge no driver has ever been removed from the Reference Implementation Distribution. > How do I know the server in question isn't running a god awful, > ancient SCO fork? Or isn't an appliance? ntpq -crv should provide some basic information about the ntpd in question. Would you care to post that time server's hostname? > Let us say that I spent more time than I should have on Dr. Mill's > site and NTP.org in addition to playing with Google and this newsgroup > before posting a question of such minor consequence. You would not be the first person to do so. > Can we put to rest the idea that every "newbie" who posts a question > in this group is a feckless boob who in incapable of researching even > the simplest nugget of information? Sometimes one senses it's worth > going straight to the experts. You asked for a list of known Reference IDs. You got the list of what's in the documentation. No one else has stepped forward to add any. > Honestly, this thread should have died after Martin's first post, but > I just can't resist when RTFM is invoked. Of course ... <g> > I wonder how long before we bring Hitler into the fray? You just did. > NTP(d) is a fantastic tool and I sincerely appreciate all the hard > work that goes into it, but it has to be the only "defacto standard" > tool I use, commercial or GPL, where it's suggested one should search > software code in an attempt to decipher simple diagnostic output. This has been discussed in the past. One more than one occasion. > Of course this is a moot point since even if there was a list of all > the known refids and their meanings, it would be meaningless since one > can fudge the field to be any four letter word (I can think of a few). Chances are that this particular Reference ID was set locally. > I think the best answer I've seen yet is in effect, "I don't know". The Reference ID in question is, AFAIKT, not a part of any driver in The NTP Reference Implementation. -- Steve Kostecke <koste...@ntp.org> NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions