[Nagiosplug-help] check_ntp

[jeff vier]

On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 14:22 +0200, Leif Nixon wrote:
> > Because NTP should only have zero offset if run against the local
> > host, [...]
> Are you sure of that? Doesn't it just mean that the current estimate
> of the local clock error is zero, i.e. that the local clock happens to
> indicate the correct time? That does happen now and then.

You are correct, and I get bitten by occasional soft-state criticals
because of it (I watch NTP on quite a few hosts, so the odds that one
'hits' a zero offset is higher for me, I think).