September 2000
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/usr/sbin/ntptrace [-vdn][-r retries][-t timeout][server]
Use the ntptrace command to determine where a given Network Time Protocol (NTP) server gets its time and to follow the chain of NTP servers back to their master time source. If given no arguments, nptrace starts with localhost.
| -d | Turn on some debugging output. |
| -n | Turn off the printing of host names; instead, display host IP addresses. This may be necessary if a nameserver is down. |
| -r retries | Set the number of retransmission attempts for each host. |
| -t timeout | Set the retransmission timeout (in seconds); default is 2. |
| -v | Print verbose information about the NTP servers. |
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