David L. Mills wrote:
> David,
>
> I don't know what you mean by "figure head", but this is probably what
I meant that it is the one peer chosen to represent all the peers
actually used.
> is intended. The statistics such as root delay, root dispersion and
> related statistics are in fact inherited from the system peer, but the
> actual clock offset is computed as a weighted average. See the draft
> MT{v4 specification.
I believe that there is a common misconception that ntpd choses one peer
and then uses that as the only source of time information unless and
until it chooses a new one.
I believe there is also a related one, which does have same historical
basis in fact, that ntpd only uses time from the lowest numbered
stratum. (As I understand it version three included the stratum in the
weighting, but version 4 does not.)
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