On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 01:47:33PM -0500, Paul wrote: > On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 12:27 PM, David Taylor < > david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> wrote: > > > When using the pool directive, NTP tries to get a certain total number of > > servers. What is that number, please (I don't know where to find it in the > > source code). I'm seeing a total of 9 servers, with ten lines in the ntpq > > -pn output, one line being the pool directive itself. Is that correct and > > expected? > > > > maxclock *maxclock*Specify the maximum number of servers retained by the > server discovery schemes. The default is 10. See the Automatic Server > Discovery <http://www.eecis.udel.edu/%7Emills/ntp/html/discover.html> page > for further details.
Should be the example of simple client configuration on ntp wiki [1] updated to include "tos maxclock 5" to not increase the NTP traffic as users and OS vendors will be switching to the pool directive? Or change the default value of maxclock? [1] http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Support/ConfiguringNTP#Section_6.10. -- Miroslav Lichvar _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
