Re: sntpclock warnings and seldom failures on Gentoo Linux

brian <[email protected]> Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:58:49 -0600 (CST)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.libtai
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Toby Betts wrote:
> The messages you're seeing:
>   sntpclock: warning: unable to read clock: bad response format
>   sntpclock: fatal: time uncertainty too large
> have more to do with your network and your choice of NTP server than
> with the sntpclock software itself.

I think this is probably right. I run Gentoo, and it seems to be working
alright.

$ sntpclock 130.184.7.93 | clockview
before: 2005-11-16 11:57:05.708563000000000000
after:  2005-11-16 11:57:05.703646797912597655