Re: [ntp:questions] NTP time compare util

2012-08-30 Thread E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists
Kennedy, Paul wrote: > http://secondthoughts.no-ip.org/page-peerstats.php I thought i saw some similar utilities on satsignal.eu/ntp by David Taylor. -- E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists. ___ questions mailing list quest

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP time compare util

2012-08-29 Thread Kennedy, Paul
I had a think about this oddball question last night, and decided to explore it a little further. Assuming I understand the original question from Harry Bloomfield, it came to me that the we already have the data Harry is looking for in the peerstats files, ie we have a data record for each respon

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP time compare util

2012-08-28 Thread David Woolley
Steve Kostecke wrote: On 2012-08-28, David Woolley wrote: Steve Kostecke wrote: ntpd polls your chosen time servers and determine which is aparently the "best". ntpd continuously steers your system clock towards the chosen time server. Unless it has changed recently, it steers towards an av

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP time compare util

2012-08-28 Thread Harlan Stenn
The point is that ntpd is probably running on all the boxes anyway, and ntpq can be used to collect the data from all of them. I would suggest also looking at using sntp (from ntp-dev) to do the monitoring, but it will want to talk to ntpd on the remote systems. H

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP time compare util

2012-08-28 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Steve Kostecke writes: > On 2012-08-28, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > telsar writes: > On 8/24/2012 7:52 AM, Harry Bloomfield wrote: [...] Out of nothing more that idle curiosity, I am looking a utility which can display the time from several internet time servers at >>

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP time compare util

2012-08-28 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2012-08-28, David Woolley wrote: > Steve Kostecke wrote: > >> ntpd polls your chosen time servers and determine which is aparently >> the "best". ntpd continuously steers your system clock towards the >> chosen time server. > > Unless it has changed recently, it steers towards an average of al

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP time compare util

2012-08-28 Thread David Woolley
Steve Kostecke wrote: ntpd polls your chosen time servers and determine which is aparently the "best". ntpd continuously steers your system clock towards the chosen time server. Unless it has changed recently, it steers towards an average of all the servers that haven't been eliminated. The

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP time compare util

2012-08-28 Thread Chris Albertson
>> I am looking a utility > >> which can display the time from several internet time servers at > >> once. I also need to be able to set which time servers it > >> interrogates. As others have said, NTP itself is the best at doing this. I can't think of anything else that could work re

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP time compare util

2012-08-28 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2012-08-28, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> telsar writes: >> On 8/24/2012 7:52 AM, Harry Bloomfield wrote: > > [Cross-posting to news:comp.protocols.time.ntp, for obvious > reasons.] > > >> Out of nothing more that idle curiosity, I am looking a utility > >> which can display the

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP time compare util

2012-08-28 Thread Kennedy, Paul
=fugro.com...@lists.ntp.org To: questions@lists.ntp.org Sent: Tue Aug 28 18:45:00 2012 Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] NTP time compare util >>>>> telsar writes: >>>>> On 8/24/2012 7:52 AM, Harry Bloomfield wrote: [Cross-posting to news:comp.protocols.time.nt

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP time compare util

2012-08-28 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> telsar writes: > On 8/24/2012 7:52 AM, Harry Bloomfield wrote: [Cross-posting to news:comp.protocols.time.ntp, for obvious reasons.] >> Out of nothing more that idle curiosity, I am looking a utility >> which can display the time from several internet time servers at