[ntp:questions] NTP - orphan mode with SAME stratum ("tos orphan 6") FAIL to sync.

David Woolley david at ex.djwhome.demon.co.uk.invalid
Tue Apr 7 06:48:38 UTC 2009


Steve Kostecke wrote:

> 
> While ordinary NTP clients use a selection metric based on delay and
> dispersion, orphan children use a metric computed from the IP address of
> each core server. Each orphan child chooses the orphan parent as the
> root server with the smallest metric.

 From what Dr Mills has just written, that's yet another thing about 
orphan mode that only works in the very latest development version.
> 

Dr Mills wrote:

> You scratch a sore spot as I verified over the last couple of days. You 
> can always increase the mindist, but eventually the orphan servers will 
> drift away from each other. The problem is the orphan server has to be 
> selected before the intersection algorithm. I changed that in the 
> development version and am testing it now. The result is that only the 
> lowest-distance orphan server makes it to the intersection algoritihm 
> and only it will be selected.




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