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<[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12/17/2011 12:20 PM, Steve Kostecke wrote:
>> You should not be using the Undisciplined Local Clock
>>  (127.127.1.x, aka "LOCAL") unless this ntpd must be
>>  able to serve time to others when no real time sources
>>  are available.
>
> Is there a reason to not use orphan instead in that case?
>

That is another option. But what he was stating was the ONLY possible
reason for using Local. The problem is so many distributions put the
local in by default. (and there has been a report on some, that even if
you take it out, the distro puts it back in again. Lunacy.)

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