On 2012-08-28, David Woolley <[email protected]> wrote: > Steve Kostecke wrote: > >> ntpd polls your chosen time servers and determine which is aparently >> the "best". ntpd continuously steers your system clock towards the >> chosen time server. > > Unless it has changed recently, it steers towards an average of all > the servers that haven't been eliminated. The "best" one is only used > to set the stratum and the downstream error statistics (root distance, > and root dispersion). > > At one time the averaging was weighted. I'm not completely sure if > even that is true, now.
*plonk* -- Steve Kostecke <[email protected]> NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
