From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 27 22:22:46 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4714516A4CE for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 22:22:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3B8F43D39 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 22:22:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:22:45 -0600 Message-ID: <41F969B1.2000601@daleco.biz> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:22:41 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean Murphy References: <41F9671B.8040105@calarts.edu> In-Reply-To: <41F9671B.8040105@calarts.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Jan 2005 22:22:45.0837 (UTC) FILETIME=[B9DB1FD0:01C504BE] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NTP Output question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 22:22:46 -0000 Sean Murphy 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? It is in the manpage. Scroll to the paragraph the has "dmpeers" as its keyword.... Kevin Kinsey