Andrew Stone wrote: > > I would like to configure my ntp client to use 2 servers only. I want + it to receive updates from only one of them, but then use the other when + that one fails. What is the best way to do this? Will setting the + primary server to use the 'prefer' keyword work?
I'm not 100% sure, but I think that the two clocks need to be mutually truechimers, otherwise both may get rejected, as prefer only seems to be applied after the falsetickers are excluded. That *shouldn't* be a problem, but then your requirement shouldn't be needed, either, so I wonder if one or both of the time sources isn't a truechimer. Knowing what is wrong with the second time source would help people to make sensible suggestions. Note that, in normal configurations, ntpd uses a weighted average of several truechimers, certainly at least two of them. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
