[ntp:questions] LOCL clock reachability not 377?

David Woolley david at ex.djwhome.demon.invalid
Wed Jul 30 20:05:24 UTC 2014


On 30/07/14 07:50, mike cook wrote:
> Paradoxically , the LCL clock is fine when there are no refclocks.
> That is, when you don't need or want it.

My understanding was that the original purpose of the local clock was to 
cover the case when there were no NTP managed reference clocks (but 
there was another reference clock disciplining the machine with UTC). 
That's why the default stratum is in the mid-range, rather than the high 
numbers.



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