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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:15:55 -0500
From: Chad Morland <cmorland@gmail.com>
To: Sean Murphy <smurphy@calarts.edu>
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Subject: Re: NTP Output question
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Directly from the ntpdc manpage:

A "." indicates that this peer was cast off in the falseticker
detection, while a "+" indicates that the peer made it through.  A "*"
denotes the peer the server is currently synchronizing with.


On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:11:39 -0800, Sean Murphy <smurphy@calarts.edu> wrote:
> in my output from ntpdc -s i get the following
> 
> $ ntpdc -s
>     remote           local      st poll reach  delay   offset    disp
> =======================================================================
> *x.x.x.x  10.0.0.15   2   64  377 0.00018  0.029325 0.00363
> .x.x.x.x 10.0.0.5   2   64  377 0.00017  0.030048 0.00325
> 
> what does the asterisk mean and the period mean before the server name?
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