>I would choose to find out why the on-site server "goes a bit askew". > Machines running Linux or Windows have been known to lose clock >interrupts when busy. If your stratum two server is always slow when >it's off and "steps ahead" and is running Linux or Windows that is >probably the cause of your problem.
Another likely place for that sort of skew is network load. NTPntpd assumes the network links have symmetric delays. That doesn't work if you have a lot more traffic in one direction or the other. It might be interesting to compare when the clock hops to another server with a graph of the network load. -- The suespammers.org mail server is located in California. So are all my other mailboxes. Please do not send unsolicited bulk e-mail or unsolicited commercial e-mail to my suespammers.org address or any of my other addresses. These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
