On 2015-02-20, Nuno Pereira <[email protected]> wrote:
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> In our infrastructure we had some ntp clients that don't have access to the
> world and so they are configured to use only 2 servers (by the way, the other
> have 2 more options). In reality both servers are the same, but with different
> IPs.

So you only have one server. Why have two that are the same?

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> From time to time some clients configured in this way lose their reference for
> some short period.
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> I know how NTP works
> (http://www.ntp.org/ntpfaq/NTP-s-algo-real.htm#Q-NTP-ALGO), and so this seems
> to be caused by both 2 servers or just 1 of them not have survived.
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> But both the clients and the servers are physically in the same place, and
> even if they aren't in the same IP network, they are in the same LAN with just
> a switch or two between them (delay is between 1 and 2 ms).

What is the switch? Smoke signals? Any switch should be a lot lot faster
than 1ms.

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> And the question is why this does happen in the local network?
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> Aren't they close enough in order to avoid a split?
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> Given that, I have changed the configuration, and now they only use 1 server,
> but that is not a good solution.

But that is what you have!

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> Any alternative for the configuration? More servers, most likely virtual
> servers?

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