Hello,

I have two questions.

1. I have to use some ntpd servers which list themselves as time
sources. They list themselves as stratum 16 and with a jitter or 16000,
so I hope this means they are ignored - but does it?
i.e. we point at two ntp servers 1.1.1.1 and 2.2.2.2 and when I run ntpq
-p IP I see that both 1.1.1.1 and 2.2.2.2 are listed with a maximum
stratum and a huge jitter.
Is this a good idea, and will it cause a problem? Can you point me at
some documentation?

2. To determine the health of the ntp service on a server we parse the
output of ntpq -pn and look for large offsets. This doesn't make a lot
of sense to me since ntp will ignore crazy servers. What's the best way
of asking ntpd if it is receiving time from a good time source?

Thanks a lot.

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