[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#465752: Bug#465752: ntp: Default distribution does not form peer relationships

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 09:35:11AM -0600, Moshe Yudkowsky wrote:
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> 10 Feb 10:17:37 ntpd[15698]: system event 'event_peer/strat_chg' (0x04)
> status 'sync_alarm, sync_ntp, 2 events, event_restart' (0xc621)
> 10 Feb 10:17:37 ntpd[15698]: synchronized to 216.184.20.83, stratum 3
> 10 Feb 10:17:38 ntpd[15698]: time reset +1.456355 s
> 10 Feb 10:17:38 ntpd[15698]: kernel time sync status change 0001
[...]
> # ntpdc -c peers -c sysinfo
>      remote           local      st poll reach  delay   offset    disp
> =======================================================================
> =clock.trit.net  172.28.54.162    2   64  377 0.07658 24.532540 0.07133
> =63.240.161.99   172.28.54.162    2   64  377 0.01187 26.785723 0.06363
> =mick.eng.uiowa. 172.28.54.162    2   64  377 0.01299 32.043092 0.04242
> =hydrogen.cert.u 172.28.54.162    2   64  377 0.08910 36.593320 0.03636
> =bagpipes.local  172.28.54.162    2   64  377 0.00017 27.291048 0.06699
> =nick125.com     172.28.54.162    3   64  377 0.12784 34.653144 0.04703
> =nist1.symmetric 172.28.54.162    1   64    0 0.00000  0.000000 3.99217
> =dtype.org       172.28.54.162    2   64  377 0.06665 33.784147 0.05498

It's seeing peers that are off between 24 and 36 seconds.  It can't seem
to find 2 peers that agree on the time, and they're off in the order
of seconds.