Peter Roozemaal wrote:
Chris Hastie wrote:

Well exactly. Earlier this afternoon I tried and the reach was at 0
and nothing synced. A minute later it had synced and the offset was
very respectable, but it quickly slipped away. I'm now seeing


[...]

so it looks like it's see-sawing all over the place. Whoever said if
NPL can't get it right who can may have been misplaced in their
faith, by the look of things! I think I'll stick with my MSF receiver
as my preferred way to get time from NPL.


To me they look like new servers that are not correctly "tuned" yet, I
saw the same with my NTP server.
I'ld give the machines one or two days to get in sync.


The frequency status variable is ridiculously high:

$ ntpq -c readvar localhost
status=0664 leap_none, sync_ntp, 6 events, event_peer/strat_chg,
version="ntpd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Aug  3 14:29:39 BST 2004 (1)",
processor="i686", system="Linux/2.6.15-gentoo", leap=00, stratum=3,
precision=-19, rootdelay=74.583, rootdispersion=125.291, peer=2244,
refid=192.168.7.14,
reftime=c788cc94.1d0fa58f  Mon, Jan 30 2006 17:34:12.113, poll=10,
clock=c788d489.3ddabe27  Mon, Jan 30 2006 18:08:09.241, state=4,
offset=-19.194, frequency=4.670, jitter=22.962, stability=0.085

$ ntpq -c readvar ntp0.ja.net
status=02a7 leap_none, sync_lf_clock, 10 events, event_clock_excptn,
version="ntpd 4.0.99k Mon Oct 24 16:44:39 BST 2005 (90)",
processor="sun4u", system="SunOS5.8", leap=00, stratum=1, precision=-17,
rootdelay=0.000, rootdispersion=1.377, peer=50220, refid=MSF,
reftime=c788d4ab.05dd095a  Mon, Jan 30 2006 18:08:43.022, poll=6,
clock=c788d4c6.658e64b2  Mon, Jan 30 2006 18:09:10.396, state=4,
phase=-0.052, frequency=9.864, jitter=0.012, stability=0.011

$ ntpq -c readvar ntp1.npl.co.uk
status=06f4 leap_none, sync_ntp, 15 events, event_peer/strat_chg,
processor="unknown", system="arm-wrs-vxworks", leap=00, stratum=2,
precision=-9, rootdelay=9.273, rootdispersion=10.645, peer=37734,
refid=78.84.80.0,
reftime=c788d45d.c7ae147a  Mon, Jan 30 2006 18:07:25.780, poll=6,
clock=c788d489.63d70a3d  Mon, Jan 30 2006 18:08:09.390, state=4,
phase=-9.999, frequency=4350958.094, jitter=2.205, stability=0.779

$ ntpq -c readvar ntp2.npl.co.uk
status=06f4 leap_none, sync_ntp, 15 events, event_peer/strat_chg,
processor="unknown", system="arm-wrs-vxworks", leap=00, stratum=2,
precision=-9, rootdelay=9.277, rootdispersion=10.585, peer=37733,
refid=78.84.80.0,
reftime=c788d461.ee147ae1  Mon, Jan 30 2006 18:07:29.930, poll=6,
clock=c788d489.91eb851e  Mon, Jan 30 2006 18:08:09.570, state=4,
phase=-9.595, frequency=4339962.464, jitter=4.230, stability=10.844


Greetings,
        Peter.
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