[ntp:questions] Questions and ruminations regarding NTPD 4 config and XP's bad behavior.
Brad Knowles
brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Fri Jan 14 18:17:37 UTC 2005
At 7:34 AM -0800 2005-01-14, elickd at one.net wrote:
> server [Internal Stratum 2 Server #1] (Shouldn't we be peering
> server [Internal Stratum 2 Server #2] with our stratum 2 servers?)
It shouldn't matter. You have to define "peer" on both sides,
otherwise the peer relationship doesn't happen. If they do define
you to be a peer, then you would only figure into their calculations
if you lost your upstream link, and everyone was dependant on their
local clocks.
However, normally, using only two upstream servers is the worst
possible configuration -- see
<http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Support/SelectingOffsiteNTPServers#Section_4.3.3.>.
> #peer [ntp1] # NTP1 <---<This server>
> peer [ntp2] # NTP2
> peer [ntp3] # NTP3
> peer [ntp4] # NTP4
What I'm not sure about is how "peer" servers are figured into
the falseticker/truechimer algorithms, as compared to true upstream
time servers.
> Though I don't have direct access, I
> believe our two stratum 2 servers only point to the same two stratum 1
> servers each; this is quite sub-optimal.
Yes, that is very sub-optimal. See the page mentioned above.
> I'm not completely clear as to where the reported stratum of my laptop
> is coming from;
It should be coming from the stratum of your selected upstream
time server, plus one.
> is nptdate calculating it based on the update time and
> upstream time server stratum or is Windows simply reporting this on
> it's own accord?
As for the rest, I am not familiar with how Windows works in this
area, nor am I familiar with NTPv3 in this respect.
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