[ntp:questions] Flash 400 on all peers; can't get ntpd to be happy

Chris Albertson albertson.chris at gmail.com
Sun Mar 13 00:39:27 UTC 2011


On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Ralph <ralph at depth.net> wrote:
> Right.  So what would be good is a solution along the lines of those methods
> that simply use the time off the time servers without worrying about the local
> clock, but that 'fix' the local clock in a more friendly way like ntpd does.

You may be missing the point.  The point is that even in theory f the
local clock jumps around and stops and starts you really can't measure
its rate.    What NTP does is measure the rate of the system clock and
compare that rate to a set of reference clocks and then adjust the
rate of the local clock to match the speed of the reference.    If yu
can't measure the local rate yu are not able to use this method.

The best best is to "jump" the local clock when ever you notice there
is some difference between it's time and the reference.  So try
this... run a script that pools a refference clock every minute or so.
  You can use "rtime" to get the time.   subtract that from local
time.  If the difference is > 1 second reset the local time.   This
would fit in a small script of less then about 1 dozen lines.   Use
Bash shell, perl and whatever script you like.   Might take 15 minute
to set this up.



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Chris Albertson
Redondo Beach, California



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