In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Richard
B. Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>If you MUST serve your local clock, "fudge" it to stratum 10 like this:
>#
># Declare the local clock to be the clock of last resort.
># It will be used to serve time in the absence of any other.
>#
>server 127.127.1.0              # Local clock, unit 0
>fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10

Agreed (but probably not useful if the server is w32time or whatever
it's called).

>Your client does not believe the server because the server is serving an 
>unsychronized local clock that has NEVER been synchronized.

The client has no way of knowing that, at most it can tell that the
server is using a particular kind of refclock - it could even be a
perfectly "NTP-legitimate" setup if the local clock is disciplined by
some other means.

I.e. in general, it works just fine to use NTP to synchronize against a
server that only has its local clock as reference (the quality of the
time is another thing) - according to the docs it's even "the intended
use" for the LOCAL refclock, and of course it's quite commonly done. The
problem here is with the server (non-)implementation.

--Per Hedeland
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