[chrony-dev] tracking report when not connected to anything misleading

[Bill Unruh <unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am noticing a strange behaviour. Using 
server  pool.ntp.org iburst
in /etc/chrony.conf

I get if I run chronyc and then sourcestats
210 Number of sources = 1
Name/IP Address            NP  NR  Span  Frequency  Freq Skew  Offset  Std Dev
==============================================================================
resntp-b-vip.lon.bitfolk.   1   0     0     +0.000   2000.000     +0ns  4000ms

Clearly no connection.

and if I do tracking

chronyc> tracking
Reference ID    : 0.0.0.0 ()
Stratum         : 0
Ref time (UTC)  : Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
System time     : 0.000000001 seconds slow of NTP time
Last offset     : -0.000580443 seconds
RMS offset      : 0.001692938 seconds
Frequency       : 0.817 ppm slow
Residual freq   : +0.000 ppm
Skew            : 0.000 ppm
Root delay      : 0.000000 seconds
Root dispersion : 0.000000 seconds
Update interval : 512.2 seconds
Leap status     : Not synchronised


Clearly there is no connection to the source at all. But the tracking still
seems to indicate that everything is fine, when clearly it is not. 
Ie it is telling me that the system time is exactly on, etc. although the
Reference ID clearly says something is wrong. There should be more of an
indication in tracking that nothing is being tracked.


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