David Woolley schreef: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Timo Ruiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> When you are assigned *one* stratum-1 server and *two* stratum-2 servers >> your clock will obviously synchronize to the stratum-1 server. But that > > It will synchronize to a mixture of the times from all three servers, but > weighted in favour of the stratum 1 one, I believe. Although it only Can anyone confirm this? > reports one server as reference source, it actually makes use of timing > information from several of them. > >> being the case, what is the use of the two stratum-2 servers, assuming >> that the stratum-1 server will not go off-line? > > They can outvote the stratum one server if it is giving the wrong time. > Note that some people reckon that you need four servers for this to > work reliably. >
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