[ntp:questions] Keeping NTP Honest
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Fri Jul 10 20:19:27 UTC 2009
Unruh wrote:
> Evandro Menezes <evandro at mailinator.com> writes:
>> As I mentioned before, in some cases, NTP relies too
>> much on low-stratum servers, even when they're blatantly
>> wrong. For instance, the last leap second event, when
>> many pool servers were poorly configured.
>
>> Mulling over that, I wondered how I could tip NTP to
>> scale down the poll period in such cases. So I tried
>> this trick and it seems to work fairly well when only
>> one server is kaput:
>
>> server pool.ntp.org iburst maxpoll 6
>> server 0.pool.ntp.org
>> server 1.pool.ntp.org
>> server 2.pool.ntp.org
>> server 3.pool.ntp.org
>
>> By having one server that remains polled every 64s, NTP
>> could realize more quickly that there was something
>> rotten in Denmark. However, if that one server is
>> neither selected nor a candidate, this trick doesn't
>> work. I'd hesitate to make it the preferred server
>> though.
>
>> Thoughts?
>
> And you have at least a 1/5 chance that IT is the bad server.
> What do you do then?
Ignore the strat 1s with floor? e.g.
tos minclock 5 minsane 4 floor 2
pool us.pool.ntp.org preempt iburst
pool pool.ntp.org preempt iburst
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