Chronyc 'sources -a' question

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I know this isn’t the Chrony support channel, but perhaps the question is relevant here too.

When I issue chronyc sources -a -v I see some weird ‘ID’-entries. Does anyone know what these are?

^? ID#0000000002 0 6 0 - +0ns[ +0ns] +/- 0ns
^? ID#0000000003 0 6 0 - +0ns[ +0ns] +/- 0ns
^? ID#0000000004 0 6 0 - +0ns[ +0ns] +/- 0ns
^? ID#0000000005 0 6 0 - +0ns[ +0ns] +/- 0ns
^? ID#0000000006 0 6 0 - +0ns[ +0ns] +/- 0ns
^? ID#0000000007 0 6 0 - +0ns[ +0ns] +/- 0ns

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Probably chronyc sources, not chrony sources. I do not know, but I guess they are unused slots of associations?

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Oops - typo yes. Ik fixed my original posting. Thanks.

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They are sources that don’t have a resolved IP address, for example it could be a pool which has its DNS name resolvable to only one 1 IP address.

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