TIA, I may have misread your original question. The preempt option is intended for the pool scheme and may not work as you expect. A preemptable association is expendable and presumed to exist only as the survivor of the selection algorithm which acts to cast off outlyers until a minimum number of survivors remain. Unless you really know what you are doing, it is probably best that you avoid this option.
Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dave, > > Here's what I see: > > I configure a server to have a preempt association. Instead of showing > in the servers list with a KOD as you said, it doesn't show up at all. > Will this preemptable server ever be contacted again? > > I came up the preempt server option because I wanted to have a backup > server in case of failure of the main ones. But because this server > runs Windows XP, it's pretty jittery, and because it was close and was > of a higher stratum than other more consistent servers, it ended up > being picked as the sync server. But in spite of NTP's decision, it's > still a poor time reference. > > Or perhaps would letting the client do its best on its own be better > than using a poor backup server? > > TIA > _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
