[ntp:questions] Re: Why do clients reject win 2003 ntp server?

David Woolley david at djwhome.demon.co.uk
Fri Jul 1 21:47:19 UTC 2005


In article <1120223760.025917.321530 at f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
weage98 at yahoo.com wrote:

> What is odd is that reftime shows a clock update on the server less
> than an hour ago, even when there is a very recent server clock update,
> it is showing a rootdispersion of 10+ seconds.  Blame the broken
> W32Time I guess.

What that means is that the server's server is free running (or given
that W32time reports a bogus stratum 2, that some server upstream of the
immediate server is free running).  reftime isn't the time of reading
the root reference clock but the time at which the immediate upstream value
was obtained.




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