Per Hedeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Did you lower the maxpoll on the server that is actually providing time
> to those two? Don't do that, it prevents ntpd from fine-tuning the
> disciplining of the system clock. 

<insert sheepish "yes" answer here...>

> Lowering it on the peer setup - which is not intended to provide
> time to either of those two hosts, and so could usefully have
> 'noselect' (if it is available in your version and works with
> "peer", I haven't tried that) - is just so you can have a "recent"
> value for the offset. It would be a good idea to lose the LOCAL
> clock though, it's totally useless for your purpose.

Here is what I have now that I've dropped the minpoll from the server
and dropped LOCAL:

peer bl480c2 minpoll 3 maxpoll 4 iburst
server 10.208.0.1 iburst
server 10.0.0.1
server 10.202.1.1

I just restarted that on both ends (adjusting peer accordingly) and
will see how that settles-in.

thanks,

rick jones
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