Martin Burnicki wrote: > Heiko Gerstung wrote: > > >>Tim wrote: >> >>>I see "73.78.73.84" as the refid for the local clock on one of my >>>machines (running Fedora Core 4 Linux, if that helps), and I can't figure >>>out where it gets that from, nor what it means. >> >>73 is the ASCII code for "I", 78 is "N", another 73 "I" and finally 84 >>stands for "T"... therefore 73.78.73.84 is "INIT"... there was a bug in >>certain versions of NTP where the refid of the LOCALCLK driver was not >>set correctly. If you really care about that, you can fudge the refid to >>something else. >
The refid should NOT be fudgeable, it's meant for loop prevention. > [...] > >>IIRC it was only a display problem and had no other >>drawbacks.. > > > .. beside the fact that ntpq may try to do DNS reverse lookups on that > number, which will not give any useful result, but introduce delays until > the DNS query times out: > # host 73.78.73.84 > Host 84.73.78.73.in-addr.arpa not found: 2(SERVFAIL) > It shouldn't, it's the refid and not an IPv4 address. Danny > Martin _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
