On 2008-11-24, Steve Kostecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-10-28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have a test environment, >> Server(WinXP2,Meinberg ntp-4.2.4p5) >> Clients C1(XP2,ntp-4.2.4p5) C2(Vista-64,ntp-4.2.4p5) >> C3(CentOS5.2,ntp-4.2.2p1) > > No current NTP-stable release (i.e. up to 4.2.4p5) is usable as a Stand > Alone Orphan Mode Server.
I must correct this statment. NTP stable <= 4.2.4p5 and NTP dev <= 4.2.5p100 will not function properly as a Stand Alone Orphan Mode Server* unless some other time source is configured in ntp.conf. This time source does not need to exist, but it does need to be "configured". When an ntpd of the versions stated above is started up _without_ a configured "server" the refid never leaves .INIT. and the stratum is fixed as 16 and the rootdispersion continues to increase as ntpd runs. When an ntpd of the versions stated above is started up _with_ a configured (but unreachable) "server" the refid is correctly set to 127.0.0.1 and the stratum is set as specified on the "tos orphan" line and the rootdispersion stays at an acceptable level. In my tests with 4.2.2p4 the rootdispersion would start at 0 and gradually increase to 15 before resetting to 0. -- Steve Kostecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
