Re: Can sychronize with a slightyly different NTP versios

DavidO wrote:

Hi:
-ntpq -p display from server unit (version 4.1):

remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset
jitter
==============================================================================
*LOCAL(0) LOCAL(0) 5 l 12 64 377 0.000 0.000
0.004

- /etc/ntp.conf from the server unit (version 4.1):

server 127.127.1.0 burst iburst
authenticate no


Try:
server 127.127.1.0 # Local clock, unit 0
fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10

I believe that what's happening is that without the "fudge" statement, the client sees the server as "stratum 16" which means "unsynchronized" (which it is). An ntp client will not use an unsynchronized server.
Please don't use a value lower than ten for stratum in the fudge statement; if you ever do connect to the internet you don't want to be serving incorrect time to an unsuspecting world!!

It would probably be a lot easier and consume far fewer resources to use rdate in a cron job.


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