Re: [ntp:questions] tally code of =

2013-04-17 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Johnathan , From my digging on the ntp resource site(wiki) it should be ... = means the remote server is being polled in client mode Hth , JimL On Tue, 16 Apr 2013, Jonathan Reed wrote: Hi, I'm seeing '=' preceding a number of hosts when running $ ntpdc -c peers Wha

Re: [ntp:questions] Syncing and peering for a multi-continent deployment

2013-04-17 Thread Uwe Klein
John Hasler wrote: unruh writes: But perhaps if the whole gps goes down, or goes bad, we as a society will have bigger problems than our computer clocks. Well, it's run out of a single center by a single agency so things other than a loss of satellites could compromise it. Fortunately there

Re: [ntp:questions] Syncing and peering for a multi-continent deployment

2013-04-17 Thread John Hasler
unruh writes: > But perhaps if the whole gps goes down, or goes bad, we as a society > will have bigger problems than our computer clocks. Well, it's run out of a single center by a single agency so things other than a loss of satellites could compromise it. Fortunately there's GLONASS and will s

Re: [ntp:questions] Syncing and peering for a multi-continent deployment

2013-04-17 Thread unruh
On 2013-04-17, David Taylor wrote: > On 10/04/2013 03:07, Blair Zajac wrote: >> Thanks Charles, >> >> OK. So unless I go for some GPS-based clocks in my servers, each data >> center will use close stratum-2 servers and the stratum-3 clocks will >> not peer with clocks in my other datacenters. >>

[ntp:questions] tally code of =

2013-04-17 Thread Jonathan Reed
Hi, I'm seeing '=' preceding a number of hosts when running $ ntpdc -c peers What does the equals mean? All but the equals sign is mentioned in the docs as a tally code: http://doc.ntp.org/4.2.4/ntpq.html. Here are my versions of ntp: ubuntu: ii ntp1:4.2.4p8+dfsg Network Time Protoc