NTS update

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>: 
> Eric said:
> > So this means ntpd is shipping these strings in the refid field?
> Yes

Good.  I'm in favor of anything it can do to export more meaningful status
information, and this definitely qualifies.

> > I want to document this. Not sure where it goes. 
> 
> For things like that, I grep -r docs/
> 
> That misses the man pages that are in the directory with program sources.
> 
> INIT gets 2 hits.  Neither looked like what you are looking for.  Probably it 
> should go in ntpq since that's the way most people will see it.
> 
> Searching for INIT in the code directory gets lots of logging messages.  They 
> can be filtered out with grep -v INIT:

One of the hits is relevant.  It's the table of KISS codes, which needed revising
for a couple of reasons. One is that with the excision of manycast and broadcast
service  some of those codes are no longer.  Another is that there are no more
actual KoDs left other than RATE - and, frankly, I'm not sure why that one still
exists.

That table would now better be labeled "Billboard codes" or "Refid codes".

Looking further, I see this whole area of the docs is in serious need of updating.
I'm working on that now.
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