On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Claas Hilbrecht <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello George, > >> - local fudge if network servers not available option (checkbox >> setting, defaults to enable) >> when enabled translates in /etc/ntp.conf to >> server 127.127.1.0 >> fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10 > > don't do that in a way that's to easy to use, see > <http://www.ntp.org/ntpfaq/NTP-s-refclk.htm#Q-LOCAL-CLOCK> and > <http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/drivers/driver1.html> why. I > knew many admins using the local reference clock as "a last resort" > together with pool.ntp.org which is wrong.
Actually that's the way sipXecs configures NTP by default in 4.4 (local + pool.ntp.org). I could disable this option by default and add a clear description on how it should be used / what it means > > What could be nice is an option to use a real local reference clock. Since > there are so many different ones I think it could be sufficient to allow > some text from a textbox to include in a generated ntp.conf. This makes it > possible to use most of the magic from sipXecs but allows to use a local > reference clock as well. > That sounds OK, I'll look into adding such a textbox (custom configuration) as an advanced option George _______________________________________________ sipx-dev mailing list [email protected] List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-dev/
