I think your data corruption idea is the most probable cause. If you look closely at the refid, it is 6 characters excluding the start and ending periods. I tried to create a refid of 6 chars, but it got truncated to 4.
Le 11 nov. 2013 à 23:00, A C a écrit : > On 11/11/2013 13:38, E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the > BlackLists wrote: >> On 11/10/2013 10:35 PM, A C wrote: >>> Anyone care to explain what this refid means? This is from the >>> billboard on one of my machines. This came from the round-robin DNS >>> pool but I couldn't tell you which round-robin provided it other than >>> one of the North America or US pools. >>> >>>> 204.109.63.243 .M-F.\.. 16 u 86 512 376 58.947 -201.11 138.426 >> >> Medium Frequency Radio? (LORAN-A?) >> >> > Given that it was late Sunday I almost thought "This server open Monday > through Friday only". :) I don't think it would be LORAN since there > are no more LORAN transmitters in the US. LORAN-A has been long gone > and LORAN-C shut down a couple years ago. > > The server in question is normally a stratum 2 system and currently has > a stratum 1 server IP as the refid. > _______________________________________________ > questions mailing list > questions@lists.ntp.org > http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions