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

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Fri Jul 1 16:50:36 UTC 2005


weage98 at yahoo.com wrote:
> Thanks for the clarification of how dispersion works.  From what I read
> of the RFC, it appeared that dispersion was in seconds not ms, which
> had me confused.
> 
> 
>>> 10.164.10.1     10.3.10.3        2 u    2   64  377    0.352  3363.48 2.525
>>
>>                   ^^^^^^^^^        ^
>>
>>You appear to have a stratum one server on your private network, why
>>not use it?  (Or could it be that your server software bogusly
>>claims to be always running at stratum 2 as does W32Time, but you
>>can't be using W32Time, as that is a (broken) SNTP server and using
>>an SNTP server upstream of an NTP client is a protocol violation.)
> 
> 
> Yep, it is W32Time.  I'm stuck with using what corporate IT services
> has provided, which is Windows 2003 server based.  Whether or not I can
> get them to install ntpd as well is another issue.
> 

Is it a requirement that you use this as your time source? Or can you 
use another, closer timesource. Your network distance is rather large 
and subject to the vagaries of the Internet congestion. More local 
stratum servers would be a much better solution for you.

Danny



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