[ntp:questions] Re: An NTP Question

Brian Utterback brian.utterback at sun.removeme.com
Thu Sep 15 17:32:56 UTC 2005


Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> Machine B should ignore machine A's time for several poll intervals.  
> After machine B is convinced that machine A really believes in the new 
> time, it should adjust its clock at the rate of 1/2 millisecond per 
> second!  That's thirty milliseconds per minute or about forty-three 
> seconds per day!!  A two minute step would take almost two days to 
> propagate to the clients.

Why do you think that machine B would only adjust by slewing the
clock? An offset this big would result in a clock step, not a
slew, unless the system was explicitly configured to slew large
offsets, which is not the default, nor recommended.

-- 
blu

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