[ILUG] ntptrace strangeness

[Cian Cullinan]

On 9/19/05, Stephen Shirley <diamond at skynet.ie> wrote:
> Cian Cullinan wrote:
> > Nope, tried with versions, 1,2,3 and 4 too.
> 
> Oh yeah? How does one do that? I was trying to figure out if there was a
> cmdline switch for ntptrace.
> 
Well on my box at least, ntptrace is just a script in /usr/sbin that
calls ntpq, and ntpq has a "ntpversion" option that lets you set just
that.
Actually on further inspection, the man page has this to say: "Sets
the NTP version number  which  ntpq   _claims_  in  packets.". So
maybe it's not actually changing anything, just claiming to. tcpdump
confirms the altered version, but then it's probably just believing
what it's told.

>(must report that bug actually. all the documented flags for
> ntptrace don't work on my box -/).

I have this too, it's down to the whole "ntptrace just calls ntpq" thingy.