On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 01:22:11PM +0000, Niko Delarich wrote: > I know the situation is not ideal and the customer should probably just use > better servers but shouldn't chrony just pick the "better" of the two servers > in this case (#2 with stratum 3)? > There's a comment in sources.c:869 which seems to indicate it should: > The first case is just bad luck - we need extra sources to > detect the falseticker, so just make an arbitrary choice based > on stratum & stability etc.
If I understand that comment correctly, it is for the example with three servers, where two and two agree with one another, so that's a different case, and the "arbitrary choice" is for selecting the system peer, not a falseticker. > Or is there maybe a configuration option I'm missing? Setting one of the > sources to "trusted" manually is most likely not an option for us since the > servers may be assigned by a DHCP server. No, I don't think there is a non-source option that would force chronyd to select a source in this case. They should disable the bad server. -- Miroslav Lichvar -- To unsubscribe email chrony-users-requ...@chrony.tuxfamily.org with "unsubscribe" in the subject. For help email chrony-users-requ...@chrony.tuxfamily.org with "help" in the subject. Trouble? Email listmas...@chrony.tuxfamily.org.
