Re: strange behaviour of ntp peerstats entries.

David J Taylor wrote:
Brian Utterback wrote:
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Which is why NTP prefers the source with the smallest delay. The
system I am using has servers whose delays are 51ms to 94. I can't
find any closer. On my company LAN, the delays range from 16ms to
87ms. The offsets of all these servers agree to within 9ms. Sure, I
am not going to get sub-millisecond from that, but I think it is probably
more typical than your set-up.

Brian Utterback

Brian,

I know this is supposed to happen, but I recall seeing behaviour some time ago where a server with a little more jitter and much more delay was preferred, almost as if it was the jitter/offset which was the measure rather than offset itself. I ended up adding a "prefer" qualifier.

Cheers,
David

Doesn't ntpd choose a peer based on stratum also? Maybe that was the issue there.

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