[ntp:questions] chrony as a server

William Unruh unruh at invalid.ca
Fri Feb 20 20:23:23 UTC 2015


On 2015-02-19, Paul <tik-tok at bodosom.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 5:34 AM, David Taylor <
> david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Does not NTP's orphan mode and local clock driver provide this?
>
>
> Refclock 1 (LOCAL/LOCL) is deprecated and I believe as of a recent release
> it's useless* but "Orphan mode is intended to replace the local clock
> driver. It provides a single simulated UTC source ...".  Note that I
> provided a link not any commentary on the correctness of the claims at that
> link.  It would be nice if the Chrony docs told the truth but likewise the
> NTP docs.

??? how do assume that the chrony docs do not tell the truth? 

>
> *Previously LOCL+PPS was a useful configuration, now you need (or should)
> use kernel PPS.



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