On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 08:08:19 +0000
bascule disseminated the following:
> in the above output sherlock is my firewall and time server for the lan,
> so ntpd is running on that machine and also on my workstation, mycroft.
> on mycroft i put the server ip into /etc/ntpd.conf and into the timeserver
> /etc/ntpd.conf i put the ip of one of manchester uni's timeservers
> , being a firewall of course i also have to allow traffic on port 123 in both
> directions!
Actually, I never did open that port on my firewall, but it still seems to be
hitting the time server OK.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/postfix>$ntpq
ntpq> peer
remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter
==============================================================================
*doghaus.cns.uto CLOCK.UREGINA.C 2 u 341 1024 377 38.383 -22.837 1.762
+time1.chu.nrc.c tic.chu.nrc.ca 2 u 476 1024 377 174.382 24.747 41.055
ntpq>
The second one is showing a high 'jitter', is that normal?
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