Jan Hoevers wrote:
>> 63.240.161.99 is actually synced to time-a.nist.gov and if you query
>> time-a.nist.gov you get one source there, the local clock, although it is
>> synced by the ACTS dial service. Maybe there's something wrong with the ACTS
>> service and time-a.nist.gov is unable to sync, so it's wandering and
>> 63.240.161.99 is following it blindly, apparently.
>>
>> If that's the case, you'd think that the ntpd at 63.240.161.99 would have
>> declared time-a.nist.gov a falseticker a long time ago and chosen one of its
>> other configured servers. Given that it hasn't though it might indicate
>> there are no other configured servers, which is never a good configuration
>> as we all can see.
>
> No, not synced to time-a.nist.gov (why do you think so?), but to
> 78.103.190.106, which hasn't got a reverse dns and is reporting stratum 16.
Note the last server:
saturn:$ ntpq -pn
remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter
============================================================================
*127.127.28.0 .PPS. 0 l - 16 377 0.000 0.468 0.057
+127.127.20.0 .GPS. 0 l 13 16 377 0.000 1.584 12.997
-192.168.1.103 .WWVB. 1 u 6 16 376 0.175 13.474 0.102
-140.142.16.34 .USNO. 1 u 90 128 377 14.410 2.828 1.764
+132.249.20.88 .WWVB. 1 u 85 128 377 44.129 1.037 3.999
-216.218.254.202 .CDMA. 1 u 83 128 377 35.292 2.851 2.892
-198.60.22.240 .GPS. 1 u 88 128 377 52.885 2.951 2.146
x63.240.161.99 129.6.15.28 2 u 98 128 377 68.375 319.594 0.851
The refid is that server's current system peer.
saturn:$ dig -x 129.6.15.28 +short
time-a.nist.gov.
Unless we are talking about a different server...
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