[ntp:questions] NTP and VMware

David Woolley david at ex.djwhome.demon.invalid
Tue Aug 14 06:53:45 UTC 2012


Ali Nikzad wrote:

> server 127.127.1.0
> fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10
> tos cohort 1 orphan 11

I don't think that the orphan line will ever be effective with the 
"local clock" driver fudged to a numerically lower stratum number.  You 
should probably drop the local clock definition

> restrict source nomodify
> restrict 192.168.2.0 mask 255.255.255.0 nomodify notrap
> 
> 
> and the clients' ntp.conf file:
> 
> #192.168.2.X
> driftfile /etc/ntp.drift
> server 192.168.2.10
> tos cohort 1 orphan 11

Does ESXi have a sufficiently recent ntpd to support orphan?



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