[ntp:questions] Re: Questions and ruminations regarding NTPD 4 config and XP's bad behavior.

David J Taylor david-taylor at invalid.com
Fri Jan 14 20:26:18 UTC 2005


elickd at one.net wrote:
> I should have added that I'm so concerned about the XP machines
> showing up as stratum 4 servers is because our entire NTP server
> "chain" appears to have enough instability that our stratum 3 servers
> may have the chance to drop to stratum 4 and start peering with them.

Why not just run standard NTP on your XP boxes in place of the W32Time 
service?

See:

  https://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Main/ExternalTimeRelatedLinks

  http://norloff.org/ntp/

Cheers,
David 





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