Hi I want to move my subnet from using unicast to using broadcast. The current setup is as follows: 2 local servers poll (unicast) from 2 external (on the internet) servers at stratum 2 (making my 2 local servers stratum 3). All the other systems poll from the 2 local servers and peer with each other (making them stratum 4). I want to move to broadcast to simplify client setup, add reliability and accuracy. I setup my 2 main servers to broadcast and 1 client to be broadcast client (for testing) and have the following questions: 1. Does having 2 broadcast server add to the accuracy of the clients? 2. I tried to have on the client in addition to the "broadcastclient" directive the "server" and "fudge" directives for local synchronization in case there is a network outage (slim chance, but none the less) and it didn't work. Why? 3. I noticed that on the client when I run `ntpq -p` it sees all the servers on the subnet even though only 2 servers broadcast, and while only 2 servers are stratum 3 and all the others are on stratum 4, the broadcast client moved between the servers in stratum 4 ignoring the broadcast servers in stratum 3. Why?
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