In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard B. Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I put these lines in the ntp.conf (xntpd) xntpd is obsolete, except for one platform, where the vendor insists on confusing everyone else by using the old name, claiming it confuses their users less. If this really is xntpd, it might explain why it actually displays results for the bad clock driver code. > > server 127.127.0.1 > fudge 127.127.0.1 stratum 10 > > What result did you expect??? I imagine he expects time since last poll to be present and less than 64, reachability to be 377, the last figure to be pretty small, and the machine to serve its, almost certainly, bogus idea of the time to NTP clients. > NTP was designed to synchronize computer clocks to Universal Time > Coordinated (UTC). It does that very well if you configure at least one > source of time. It would appear that you did not do so. Whilst I'd agree that this is an abuse of NTP, it is a very common abuse, and might even be more common than proper use, because it can do more or less what its users expect it to do. There are legitimate uses as well, if the clock is being disciplined by code outside of NTP, but, statistically, that is unlikely to be the case here. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
