[ntp:hackers] Receiving smeared time

Miroslav Lichvar mlichvar at redhat.com
Tue Jun 30 11:25:02 UTC 2015


On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 10:19:24AM +0000, Harlan Stenn wrote:
> Miroslav Lichvar writes:
> > The trouble is that currently the refid is generated on clients,
> > there is no way for a server to tell its clients its refid. The
> > clients generate it from the IP address of the server because there is
> > no other information that would be stable and unique to the server.
> 
> Huh?  An S1 sends its refid in the packet to the client.  An S2+
> sends the refid of its system peer in the packets it originates.

S1 sends a refid of its reference clock. No server sends its own
refid, it's always the refid of its synchronization source.

-- 
Miroslav Lichvar


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