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Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Nelson Minar wrote:
> [ ... ]
>> 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 ..." :-)
> 

fwiw, I'd put an 'n' in there too.  "ntpq -np", "ntpq -nc peers", etc as
hostname lookups take forever at times and I usually just find it easier
to read if it's just ip addresses.

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Todd
http://www.vrillusions.com/
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