[ntp:questions] a few questions about broadcast
Brad Knowles
brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Sun Oct 23 19:05:37 UTC 2005
At 10:49 AM -0700 2005-10-23, vrkid0 at gmail.com wrote:
> I want to move my subnet from using unicast to using broadcast. The
> current setup is as follows: 2 local servers poll (unicast) from 2
> external (on the internet) servers at stratum 2 (making my 2 local
> servers stratum 3). All the other systems poll from the 2 local servers
> and peer with each other (making them stratum 4).
See
<http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Support/SelectingOffsiteNTPServers>,
especially section 5.3.3 -- having two upstream time servers is the
worst possible configuration. Before you do anything else, you need
to fix this.
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