[Nottingham] "ntpq -p" displayed flags

Martin martin at ml1.co.uk
Sat Jan 21 13:54:51 UTC 2012


On 21/01/12 13:40, Martin wrote:

> For my example I have:
> 
> 
> remote          st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
> =============================================================
>  LOCAL(0)       10 l  14h   64    0    0.000    0.000   0.000
> +ns2.adnscom.net 2 u 1041 1024  377   32.293   -1.253   6.789

Aside: What are the units?

The delay, offset and jitter appear to be in milliseconds. The reach
looks to be an 8-bit shift register recording successful contacts
displayed in octal. "st" is the stratum level. So, what is the "t" and
what units for "when" and "poll"?


Cheers,
Martin

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