[ntp:questions] chrony as a server

David Taylor david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk.invalid
Sat Feb 21 07:24:45 UTC 2015


On 21/02/2015 07:04, William Unruh wrote:
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> orphan mode is about a group of computers. "Orphan Mode allows a group
> of ntpd processes to automonously select a leader in the event that all
> real time sources become unreachable (i.e. are inaccessible)."
>
> chrony's is that you can enter the time by hand (Ie, by typing a current
> time and hitting enter) on a single machine.  You are the "remote clock". Now, how useful that
> is now adays is open to question, but in the past with telephone modems
> and flaky connections it was worth something. And if you are setting up
> something on the Hebrides or on a buoy in the Atlantic where no
> connection of anykind is possible, it could be useful.
> Ie, it IS different from orphan mode.

"Things chronyd can do that ntpd can?t:  chronyd provides support for 
isolated networks whether the only method of time correction is manual 
entry (e.g. by the administrator looking at a clock)."

The claim is for "networks", not single machines.

-- 
Cheers,
David
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