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Re: [LUG] NTP (not on linux, so a bit OT)



On 27-Mar-2003 at 15:10:43 Alex Charrett wrote:
> Now as far as I can tell the server is defaulting to stratum 16 because 
> it's just using it's local clock (which doesnt seem unreasonable), but 
> that's giving me a problem in that the client isn't taking the time 
> because the strata of the server is too high..
>
You can specify the stratum of the local clock. I set ours at 10 (both
linux and solaris boxes).


ntpq> lpee
  remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset jitter
============================================================================
 LOCAL(0)        LOCAL(0)     10 l   33   64  377    0.000    0.000  0.004


ntp.conf contains:

  server  127.127.1.0     # local clock
  fudge   127.127.1.0 stratum 10





John.

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