[ntp:questions] Ntp not syncing after powerfail of server

Chris Albertson albertson.chris at gmail.com
Thu May 19 15:55:18 UTC 2011


On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:57 AM, M. Giertzsch <mgiertzsch at mobotix.com> wrote:

> Now if there is a powerfail, there is no guarantee that the server has
> finished the boot
> before the clients have. In this case the time will not be synced.

If the clients are running the standard ntpd they will continue poling
"forever" and the server can go up and down.  The clients can sync to
it when it is up and of course can't if it isn't.

BTW it helps to have more than one NTP server.  How do you know you
server is serving correct time without some kind of redundant check?


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Chris Albertson
Redondo Beach, California



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