Spoon wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Consider a cluster of computers on a LAN. These computers have no > acess to a reference clock (no Internet, no GPS, etc). > > One could still want to have all their clocks synchronized, even if > this means they are all slowly drifting away from the "real" time. > > I've read a FAQ which seems to describe this use case. > http://www.ntp.org/ntpfaq/NTP-s-refclk.htm#AEN4264 > > All I need to do would be to add these lines: > > server 127.127.1.1 # LCL, local clock > fudge 127.127.1.1 stratum 12 # increase stratum > > to my configuration file? Did I understand correctly? > > Regards.
That will cause ntpd to serve the local clock. You can, instead, use something called orphan mode in which several machines agree on a common, but not necessarily correct, time. I've never done it. See the documentation for details. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
