[ntp:questions] Rejecting Good Peers

Steve Kostecke kostecke at ntp.org
Tue Dec 2 21:03:21 UTC 2008


On 2008-12-02, David Woolley <david at ex.djwhome.demon.co.uk.invalid> wrote:

>> naughty boy will not be a well-behaved Orphan Child.
>
> Orphan and local clock are mutually incompatible!

Nonsense.

Orphan Mode and the Undisciplined Local Clock are merely ways of
providing a time "source" to ntpd.

As with any set of time sources, how they are configured dictates which
one takes precedence.

Perhaps what you meant to say was using both does not provide any
benefits.

-- 
Steve Kostecke <kostecke at ntp.org>
NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/




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