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Add selected manual pages transcribed from the HTML documentation.
Those pages which have not been transcribed are referenced as gracefully as possible. There is no perfect section for the ntp_* files, which document configuration options for the NTP suite, so I'm putting them in the same section as the pages for the utilities themselves.
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+.\"
+.\" $FreeBSD$
+.\"
+.Dd January 6, 2000
+.Dt NTPTRACE 8
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm ntptrace
+.Nd trace a chain of NTP servers back to the primary source
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm ntptrace
+.Op Fl vdn
+.Op Fl r Ar retries
+.Op Fl t Ar timeout
+.Op Ar server
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Nm
+determines where a given Network Time Protocol (NTP) server gets
+its time from, and follows the chain of NTP servers back to their
+master time source.
+If given no arguments, it starts with
+.Dq localhost .
+.Pp
+Here is an example of the output from
+.Nm Ns :
+.Bd -literal
+% ntptrace
+localhost: stratum 4, offset 0.0019529, synch distance 0.144135
+server2ozo.com: stratum 2, offset 0.0124263, synch distance 0.115784
+usndh.edu: stratum 1, offset 0.0019298, synch distance 0.011993, refid 'WWVB'
+.Ed
+.Pp
+On each line, the fields are (left to right): the host name, the
+host stratum,
+the time offset between that host and the local host
+(as measured by
+.Nm Ns ;
+this is why it is not always zero for
+.Dq localhost ) ,
+the host
+synchronization distance ,
+and (only for stratum-1 servers) the reference clock ID. All times
+are given in seconds.
+Note that the stratum is the server hop count to the primary source,
+while the synchronization distance is the estimated error
+relative to the primary source.
+These terms are precisely defined in RFC 1305.
+.Pp
+The following options are available:
+.Bl -tag -width indent
+.It Fl d
+Turn on some debugging output.
+.It Fl n
+Turn off the printing of host names; instead, host IP addresses
+are given. This may be necessary if a nameserver is down.
+.It Fl r Ar retries
+Set the number of retransmission attempts for each host; the default is 5.
+.It Fl t Ar timeout
+Set the retransmission timeout (in seconds); the default is 2.
+.It Fl v
+Print verbose information about the NTP servers.
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr xntpd 8 ,
+.Xr xntpdc 8
+.Rs
+.%A D L Mills
+.%T Network Time Protocol (Version 3)
+.%O RFC1305
+.Re
+.Sh BUGS
+This program makes no attempt to improve accuracy by doing multiple
+samples.
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