Receiving "ntpq: read: Protocol not available" when checking NTP peers

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Issue

When attempting to check NTP peers, the following error message is displayed:

# ntpq -p
ntpq: read: Protocol not available
ntpq> peer
ntpq: read: Protocol not available

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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