Steve Kostecke wrote: > Orphan mode provides a means for a group of systems to automomously > elect a leader in the event that no real time sources are reachable. The > leader is selected based on a random value which is generated by each > ntpd at start-up.
That's different from timed (Berkeley Time Synchronisation Protocol), which seems to use a single master but an average of all the well behaved times <http://osr507doc.sco.com/en/NetAdminG/tspC.how.html>. Neither of them fit the description quoted in the original article, as they don't choose a single, best quality, system. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
