On 03/01/2014 10:47 AM, Rob Janssen wrote:
> Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 6:07 AM, Philip Gladstone <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>   Ok. I understand now. It looks as though the server would respond when
>>> the time wasn't known. It ought to say stratum 16, but maybe it doesn't.
>>
>> It does, but it also says the time is off by 34 years.
>>
> Maybe it is a bug in the monitoring system.  stratum 16 means unsynchronized, 
> the

If I remember right, both + and - leap second flag set means 'no valid time', 
while
stratum 16 just means 'stratum 16' (which is usually configured as the local 
clock).

> monitoring system should take that as an indication that this server should 
> not be
> included in the pool,

AFAIK the monitoring system rejects servers with stratum 6+ from the pool.

> but it should not look at the actual time returned.

For the monitoring graph, that is no problem. Time graph and inclusion in the 
pool
are different things (though related of course).

Arnold
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