Re: ntpq-like queries using chronyc

Sorry I did a terrible work in explaining myself..
I have an ntp server that is not a chronyd daemon and is not known to my
locally running chronyd,
I can query external-ntp.localnet for a list of its known peers with:
$ ntpq -n -cpeers external-ntp.localnet

If I try to do the same thing with chronyc
$ chronyc -h external-ntp.localnet sources -a -v
I get a 'Could not open connection to daemon'.

The manpage suggests that chronyc is only able to talk to chronyd, is it
true?
googling I found out this:
$ chronyd -Q 'server time.google.com iburst'
that can print the time offset between local clock and a remote ntp source
that is not necessarily (well... obviously) a chronyd server.
can I accomplish something else with the -Q option? the chronyd manpage
suggest that I can't, but is there some hackish way to query a non-chronyd
ntp external server in the way I described above? or should I rely on some
different tool?

On Thu, Jun 9, 2022 at 2:54 PM andrei tudor corduneanu <[email protected]>
wrote:

> ok, I see that
> $ chronyc sources -a -v
> displays information about time sources for the locally running chronyd.
> The ntp server I'm trying to reach is not a chronyd daemon and is not
> local. (sorry.. I should've mention this)
> The out: "Could not open connection to daemon"
>
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2022 at 2:26 PM chengyechun <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Do you want to enumerate all time sources, chronyc sources -a -v may
>> work, and will indicate which time sources are which types
>>
>>
>>
>> *发件人:* andrei tudor corduneanu [mailto:[email protected]]
>> *发送时间:* 2022年6月9日 21:20
>> *收件人:* [email protected]
>> *主题:* [chrony-users] ntpq-like queries using chronyc
>>
>>
>>
>> I was looking for a way to get the list of peers known to an ntp server
>> and some of their stats, the ntpq command I'd like to replicate is:
>>
>> $ ntpq -n -cpeers ntp-srv.local
>>
>> Is there any way to do that with chronyd/chronyc ?
>>
>> Can chronyc make all the possible queries of ntpq?
>>
>