>Well, I was mainly thinking of the case where you have orphan mode set >up as a fallback to external servers - then the drift value that has >been calculated while external servers were reachable is a good "quality >indicator". But I assume the non-"masters" in an orphan-only setup >calculate a drift relative to the "master" - in that case, if you're >happy with the drift of the "master", you will be least unhappy if the >host with the lowest drift relative to the departed "master" is chosen >as the new "master".
The value of drift doesn't have any correlation to goodness. What you want is best stability. What is the peak-peak value of the drift measured over several days? Or something like that. -- These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
