"Per Hedeland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] > Actually you'd likely want to configure those "main" servers as peers > to each other even if you weren't using orphan mode, thus orphan mode > just becomes a simple addition for increased reliability in case your > Internet link goes down - and much better than the "local clock with > minimum of 2 stratum difference" hack that has been the standard > recommendation, of course.
Allow me to play devil's advocate. How is it 'much better'? You're still picking a single clock to follow, only now it's a random one. If you had good sync before, all your servers will be running at close to 1 sec/sec already and there isn't much of a problem, but on an isolated site it may still happen that a very slow or very fast server is randomly selected and very fast or very slow clients run afoul of the 500 PPM limit where they didn't really need to. I hope I'm missing something. Groetjes, Maarten Wiltink _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
