David J Taylor wrote: > Brian Utterback wrote: > [] >> Which is why NTP prefers the source with the smallest delay. The >> system I am using has servers whose delays are 51ms to 94. I can't >> find any closer. On my company LAN, the delays range from 16ms to >> 87ms. The offsets of all these servers agree to within 9ms. Sure, I >> am not going to get sub-millisecond from that, but I think it is >> probably >> more typical than your set-up. >> >> Brian Utterback > > Brian, > > I know this is supposed to happen, but I recall seeing behaviour some time > ago where a server with a little more jitter and much more delay was > preferred, almost as if it was the jitter/offset which was the measure > rather than offset itself. I ended up adding a "prefer" qualifier. > > Cheers, > David
Doesn't ntpd choose a peer based on stratum also? Maybe that was the issue there. -- Dennis Hilberg, Jr. \ timekeeper(at)dennishilberg(dot)com NTP Server Information: \ http://saturn.dennishilberg.com/ntp.php _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
