[ntp:hackers] Orphans sanctuary
David L. Mills
mills at udel.edu
Thu Oct 6 19:00:09 PDT 2005
Guys,
I did a little work on the orphans and found foster care. The thing
worked gangbusters in a broadast/broadcastclient configuration so I
tried it in other modes and with a few changes now works in all modes.
If no outside sources are available and the tos orphan 5 command is in
the configuration, then any combination of servers and clients will wind
up at stratum 5 and resololve the pecking order by the lowest root delay
statistic.
1. If a source is available at a stratum less than 5, operation is normal.
2. If no source is available the stratum is forced to 5 and the root
delay to zero and the reference ID to 127.0.0.1. I thought that was
appropriate.
3. If multiple sources are available at stratum 5, the client selects
the lowest orphan root delay (new system variable).
Note that the orphan root delay is set at startup to a random value less
than one second. Since the distance computation uses one-half this
value, the distance should not normally exceed the distance threshold of
one second. However, it might if the stratum path is long.
For Harlan, the current stuff in backroom/ntp-dev is stable.
Dave
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