On Mar 1, 2014, at 9:08 AM, Rob Janssen <[email protected]> wrote:

> I looked that up in the RFC before I wrote it.
> 
>   Stratum (stratum): 8-bit integer representing the stratum, with
>   values defined in Figure 11.
> 
>        +--------+-----------------------------------------------------+
>        | Value  | Meaning                                             |
>        +--------+-----------------------------------------------------+
>        | 0      | unspecified or invalid                              |
>        | 1      | primary server (e.g., equipped with a GPS receiver) |
>        | 2-15   | secondary server (via NTP)                          |
>        | 16     | unsynchronized                                      |
>        | 17-255 | reserved                                            |
>        +--------+——————————————————————————+


The SNTP RFC - http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4330 - has a different table. It 
doesn’t mention any significance with regards to the reported accuracy of the 
service.

>>> 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).
>> 
> I would say for plotting purposes it should be treated the same as "no 
> response at all".

I’d take patches making the monitoring do that with the leap second=3 
indicator, but not with the stratum.



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