[ntp:questions] Re: NTP sync problems

Terje Mathisen terje.mathisen at hda.hydro.com
Wed Dec 15 16:25:30 UTC 2004


Robert Rati wrote:
> Alternately, is there another way to configure NTP such that it will 
> sync against one server while it is up but if it goes down it will 
> automatically sync against a secondary server?

Use the 'prefer' keyword on the clients, plus configure the second 
server to have a stratum at least two levels below the primary (prefer) 
server.

Terje

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