On Jul 8, 2011, at 10:27 AM, Florian Heigl wrote: >> Don't do this, unless you absolutely need ntpd to freewheel in the absence >> of a reference time from the GPS receiver or other NTP servers for an >> extended period of time. > > That's the case - if we lose all 4 reference clocks the NTP servers > should still offer [the same] time to it's clients. > > So the point is not directly about free-wheeling, but still delivering > "the time" to anyone else. > It's ok if ALL systems drift by 5s over a day, but not if one single > system drifts 10s.
Set up your four machines as peers and use orphan mode instead of the local clock driver: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/orphan.html Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
