[smokeping-users] NTP probe

[Paul Mansfield]

On 13 June 2013 05:03, Clinton Work <clinton at scripty.com> wrote:
>
> I have been thinking about writing an NTP probe.   I started by looking
> at the ntpdate utility, but it doesn't provide options for the query

ntpq -c lpeers might reveal useful information about how "far away" a peer is?

e.g.

# ntpq -nc lpeers
     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==============================================================================
*85.234.197.5    193.190.230.65   2 u  515 1024  377   41.287   -0.419   0.663
 4.53.160.74     .STEP.          16 u 136d 1024    0    0.000    0.000   0.000
+85.234.197.4    193.190.230.66   2 u  639 1024  377   42.739   -0.381   0.888
 212.68.213.7    .STEP.          16 u 150d 1024    0    0.000    0.000   0.000