On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Avram Aumick wrote:
> Out of curiousity, I had the fudge entry commented out and had an
> entry "server 127.0.0.1". From what you are saying, I should uncomment
> the fudge entry and remove the server entry pointing to my localhost.
> Is this true?
Absolutely not. To work well, xntpd needs something like the following two
lines:
server 127.127.1.0 # local clock
fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10
The first defines a fake local clock, so that xntpd can continue to run
even if the network becomes unreachable. Without this line, xntpd will
exit after it times out, and you'll have to restart it by hand if you lose
connectivity.
The fudge line basically defines the local clock as a higher stratum than
you're likely to use for your external source (probably stratum 2 or
3). That means the clock is only referenced when no other sources are
available.
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Todd A. Jacobs
Network Systems Engineer
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