On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 02:35:56PM -0400, Chris Watt wrote:
> Short question:
> How do I make xntpd continue to report itself to clients as a usable
> stratum 3 server even when it has lost sync with its stratum 2 references?
> Longwinded form:
> I have a LAN on which only one Linux system is connected to the Internet
> (I know how to setup an IP-Masq firewall, I just don't want to) and since I
> am using NFS and a few other things in which clock synchronization is a
> real issue, I configured xntpd in an attempt to sync all the clocks on my
> LAN, the problem I am now having is that my ISP's ISP has some routing and
> packet loss problems from time to time, so the machine which is connected
> to the 'net is sometimes unable to talk to any of the stratum 2 NTP servers
> it normally sync's with, and as soon as it goes out of sync it starts
> reporting itself as stratum 16 instead of stratum 3, which appears to cause
> all the other machines on the LAN to stop attempting to sync their clocks
> to it. I am far more interested in having all the machines on the LAN think
> that it is the same time (to as fine a tolerance as I can manage) than in
> insuring that the time is "correct" UTC, and I'm told that I can use a
> "fudge" line in my ntp.conf to force the connected machine to report itself
> as a usable stratum 3 server even when it is temporarally out of sync, but
> I have not been able to find any documentation of it. Does anyone know how
> to do this?
Buy a GPS receiver and set up your own Stratum 1. :-)
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Mike
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