Jeff Woolsey wrote:

> ##      ntptrace in the NTP-4.x suite is a perl script that uses ntpq
> #       commands against successive hosts, thus it uses control messages,
> #       which are often filtered (by ntpd), but contain recorded offsets.
> #       Here we use the time messages, which usually are not filtered
> #       (would make NTP academic), but do not contain recorded offsets, so
> #       we have to work those out ourselves.

To clarify: prior to 4.2.0 ntptrace was a C program which used the time
messages.  4.2.0 introduced the perl script because using the time
messages doesn't work with upstream IPv6 servers -- you can't tell whether
the refid in a time message is an IPv4 address or a mashed IPv6 address.

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