Richard B. Gilbert wrote: > unruh wrote: >> do not know, that part of the problem is the level. The >> machines will always have a level one higher than the system they are
systems, not system. ntpd gets its time from a mix of that of the times on all the systems listed with a * or + in ntpq peers. >> getting their time from, and they do not like to get time from a system >> at a higher level than they are. Thus the first one to get its time from Some of the stratum sensitivity has been relaxed in version 4, but I think that version 3 will consider sources that have a stratum one or two worse than their own, or at least ones equal to their own. A quick look at some of the version 4 code suggests that all strata except 16 contribute to the time, subject to not being falsetickers, and not exceeding the maximum number of sources. The system peer is has the numerically lowest stratum, subject to: their not being a valid prefer peer with a high numerical stratum and the previous system peer not being still valid, a higher numerical stratum, and having been at the lowest numerical stratum sufficiently recently (anti-clock hopping). >> the other will up its level to one higher than the other, and the other >> will then see the first as having too high a level(stratum) to sync to. You are now talking about the selection of system peer, which is not the same as that of its time sources, although it will be one of them. >> (or the two will walk each other up to the highest level of 15 and see >> each other as unuseable sources) >> > No NTPD will take time from a Stratum greater than its own. It's not a > matter of "not liking", a proper NTP client cannot take time from a > lower stratum (larger number). Stratum One gets time from an atomic I'm not convinced that is true for version 3 (I don't know for version 4). Even if it is true....which looking at the code is not the case.... > clock. Stratum Two gets time from Stratum One, Stratum Three gets time > from Two and so on. In principle strata range from 1 to 15. In Stratum three gets time from stratum two and stratum 1. It is possible that there is a stratum 1 server that looks worse than its stratum 2 system peer. > practice anything claiming a stratum between 6 and 15 is probably bogus. > >> I might be wrong in that analysis but that is my suspicion. >> > I disagree. I too may be wrong but I don't think so. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
