[comp.protocols.time.ntp] Please describe

jad@hpcndnm.cnd.hp.com (John Dilley) (10/10/90)

A dump of our NTP peers follows.  I'm wondering why I've stayed locked
on to a particular system (whose name has been blanked out in case
anyone is sensitive...).  We've been locked on to this system for more
than a day now, though there are two other servers at stratum 2 with
lower delay and dispersion values (they're also a lot closer).  Any
clues to the xntpd internals appreciated; especially appreciated are
descriptions of how to force xntpd to lock on to a closer server (i.e., is
xntpdc -c unconfig PEER -c addpeer PEER the only way?).  Thanks much!

                          --      jad      --
			      John Dilley
			    Hewlett-Packard
                       Colorado Networks Division
UX-mail:      		     jad@cnd.hp.com
Phone:                       (303) 229-2787

     remote           local      st poll reach  delay   offset   disp
======================================================================
+AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 15.2.114.85      3 1024  376  0.0475 -0.000395 0.0011
+BBBBBBBBBBBBBBB 15.2.106.85      3 1024  377  0.0571 -0.011878 0.0071
+CCCCCCCCCCCCCCC 15.2.114.85      2 1024  377  0.0624 -0.001333 0.0071
+DDDDDDDDDDDDDDD 15.2.114.85      2 1024  377  0.0531 -0.002701 0.0087
*EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE 15.2.114.85      2   64  377  0.1695 -0.033659 0.0200
+FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF 15.2.114.85      2 1024  277  0.2209  0.014384 0.0840