Unruh wrote: > Steve Kostecke <[email protected]> writes: >> Never. > >> The Undisciplined Clock Driver does poll the system clock >> (often misleadingly referred to as the "local clock") _but_ the poll >> results are discarded. So ntpd never actually serves time _from_ the >> Undisciplined Local Clock. > > > Sorry there is some sematic distinction going on here that I do not follow. > ntp always "serves time" from the system clock. The question is how and > whether ntp thinks that system clock itself is being disciplined. If it is > disciplined by nothing it does not act as a server, and says so. If it is
It can still do so, but definitely not by default! > "disciplined " by local clock, it is still disciplined by nothing, but can > act as an ntp server, and tells outside clients that it is being > disciplined by the local clock. Am I wrong in my understanding? Slightly, see the documentation page for the local clock driver: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/drivers/driver1.html Terje -- - <[email protected]> "almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching" _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
