> How fast ntpdate fails when given non-existent server?
ntpdate will fail in about 8 seconds with message "no servers can be
found, exiting"

> Maybe be need to make timeout configurable? Say, -Q SECS?

For client running in foregroung it will be better to delete
unreachable server from servers list we are trying to probe, but for
current ntpd implementation where we assume that our client is run
forever as a daemon (and so unexisting server can appear after some
time passed), timeout is a good choise.

Sergey Naumov.
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