On 20/03/2018 20.50, Richard Laager wrote: > On 03/20/2018 06:31 AM, Paride Legovini wrote: >> Please build NTPsec with --enable-leap-smear, which allows compatibility >> with the Google NTP servers [1] > > I'm asking upstream for confirmation that this is compatible: > https://lists.ntpsec.org/pipermail/devel/2018-March/006074.html > > I'm concerned that NTPsec's behavior might be to smear over the interval > _before_ the leap second, as opposed to _centered on_ the leap second > (which is what Google does). > > If you're just consuming time from Google's servers, you don't need leap > smearing in your client ntpd. You just point it at smeared servers (and > only smeared servers) and disable the leap file. Are you intending on > running your own servers and then have clients sync from a mix of you > and Google? Or are you intending on running your own servers and having > clients sync from you only, but you want time consistent with Google and > similar?
I intend to run my own stratum 1 servers and in the end I think I won't do any smearing. If for some reason you prefer to leave the option disabled feel free to close this bug report. Paride
