Nelson Minar wrote:
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> FWIW, your initial post is what prompted me to get my pool server up 
> into stratum 2. Before it'd been in stratum 3. I think for almost any 
> practical application the difference is not significant, but on the 
> other hand if I'm serving time to a few hundred thousand people I might 
> as well do a good job of it.

NTP prefers higher-stratum good clocks, but it prefers good clocks with low 
jitter more.

> Still, I love data and would be happy to see that stratum data online. 
> Even better would be measures of everyone's jitter, root dispersion, 
> etc. I'm curious how good the pool server's clocks really are. But 
> that's all work for Ask, and the new DNS is so awesome I'm loathe to 
> request another pony.

Is this what you're looking for:

   host pool.ntp.org | awk '{print $4}' | xargs ntpq -p

...? (Replace "ntpq -p" with "ntpq -c as -c peers ..." :-)

-- 
-Chuck
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