[ntp:questions] NTP Peer Keeps Swapping on Start-up

Martin Burnicki martin.burnicki at meinberg.de
Tue Oct 5 15:05:44 UTC 2010


Steve Kostecke wrote:
> On 2010-10-04, Rob <nomail at example.com> wrote:
>> SteveW <qsw000 at email.mot.com> wrote:
>>> I am seeing a case where one board in my system keeps switching its
>>> peer back and forth between its local clock and a remote ntp server
>>> for about 40 minutes when it first comes up.  Eventually, it correctly
>>> starts using the remote ntp server.
>>
>> It is advisable to just remove this "local clock" from your config.
> 
> Because the Undisciplined Local Clock (127.127.1.x) is not a "backup
> time source" for a leaf-node (i.e. a pure client ntpd).

But what is the basic difference if this node works as a server for other
clients, or not?

If other clients *would* use this NTP node as server the local clock *would*
make sense, but ntpd's switching between local clock and remote server
would *not* make sense, either.

@SteveW:
BTW, about which version of ntpd are we talking?

Martin
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